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Subcontracting changes blamed for West Notts College job cuts

The largest college provider of apprenticeships in 2016/17 will have to cut more than 100 jobs in an effort to make £2.7 million in savings. West Nottinghamshire College is blaming it on changes to subcontracting rules. It had contracts to deliver apprenticeships and traineeships worth £19.8 million last year, but the overwhelming majority of this […]

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Lib Dems launch lifelong learning commission

A “major” independent commission on lifelong learning has been launched by Vince Cable. The commission is designed to investigate the “best ways” to make sure adults have “access to learning and retraining throughout their lives”. It will consider “bold ideas” such as individual learning accounts, which “could offer adults a pot of money to be […]

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The National Retraining Scheme ‘should not be run by employers’

Employers should not be handed the keys to the National Retraining Scheme if the government is serious about supporting the millions of older people who need it most, according to a former senior skills civil servant. Instead, the new initiative should focus on the skills needs of people rather than those of employers, insists Dr […]

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Hull College Group to shed over 200 staff

Hull College Group is preparing to shed up to 231 full-time jobs in an effort to balance its books. In a statement that appeared online yesterday, chief executive Michelle Swithenbank warned that “some difficult decisions have to be made” to regain stability amid longstanding financial troubles. The FE commissioner reported in February last year that […]

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Government joins unions and industry to thrash out a ‘National Retraining Scheme’

A high-level advisory group made up of top government officials and industry and union leaders has met for the first time today to begin their work in developing a “historic” national retraining scheme. The first meeting of the National Retraining Partnership was hosted by the chancellor Philip Hammond (pictured above) and joined by such luminaries […]

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The PAC’s five recommendations following its inquiry into Learndirect

The Public Accounts Committee has today published its report into the monitoring, inspection and funding of Learndirect. Members of the committee grilled the organisations who’ve been closest to the saga involving the nation’s biggest FE provider during a hearing in January. Learndirect was given an ‘inadequate’ rating by Ofsted in a report published in August, […]

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That’s special treatment all right: Accounts committee lays into Learndirect

Learndirect was indeed given special treatment because the government considered it too big to fail, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded in its final report on the saga. The scandal engulfing the nation’s biggest FE provider has engrossed the sector for nearly a year, and the PAC’s round-up asserts that it still “holds the whip-hand” […]

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FE should be front and centre in post-18 education review

Derby College Group’s historic Roundhouse campus was chosen by the Prime Minister’s Office to host the announcement of a major review into post-18 education. Here, DCG’s chief executive Mandie Stravino reacts to the announcement and explains why the involvement of FE is a crucial part of the overall review When we were approached by the […]

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Technical education doesn’t need a review!

The prime minister is talking up technical education, but doesn’t have the goods to back up her words, according to the former Labour skills minister David Lammy MP I agree with the prime minister in that the public debate on tertiary education has been dominated in the last few decades by higher education and universities, […]

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