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Ofsted has this morning published their inspection report for Learndirect, the largest training provider in the UK. Download here. This follows a failed legal bid by Learndirect to quash the grade four report, and FE Week’s successful overturning of a gagging order. Ofsted observed in their report that “directors and senior managers failed to take […]
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A-level results day is here! Today’s the day when A-level learners up and down the country find out whether all their hard work has paid off, and what their next step in life will be. *** The live blog is now closed. Sorry if your pictures didn’t make it in – we’ve been inundated with […]
The Department for Education has remained silent over why a college with a grade four for its apprenticeship provision has not been removed from the register of apprenticeship training providers. St Helens College received the lowest possible grade for its provision in an Ofsted report published on June 16, just three months after it was […]
This evening the Department for Education said that it will not, as would typically be the case, serve a three-month termination notice on Learndirect contracts when its Ofsted grade four is published on Thursday. During the judicial review hearing, as reported in FE Week, the Learndirect lawyer said they expected to be given a three-month […]
The country’s largest FE provider has lost a High Court bid to quash an as-yet unpublished ‘inadequate’ Ofsted rating, FE Week can reveal, leaving more than 1,600 of its staff at risk of losing their jobs. Learndirect failed in its judicial review to overturn the damning report on August 4 – the release of which […]
A Norfolk-based provider that was hit with a grade four Ofsted rating in May has entered into administration, FE Week understands. The news on Norfolk Training Services was confirmed this afternoon to FE Week by administrators Larking Gowen. FE Week reported three months ago that the provider had received the lowest possible overall-Ofsted rating. The […]
The country’s biggest training provider has had its desperate attempt to appeal against a judicial review flatly rejected – in a move that will finally give Ofsted leave to publish its damning ‘inadequate’ inspection report. Skills giant Learndirect lost its first High Court bid to overturn the grade four-overall verdict that will cost it £100 […]
The government has been accused of “making it up as they go along” on critical questions over non-levy tendering, especially concerning maximum bid sizes. The Education and Skills Funding Agency launched a new tender process for delivering apprenticeships to employers not subject to the levy last month, after its first attempt was “markedly oversubscribed” and […]
A major college has been bumped up from a grade three to a two by Ofsted, in a report that was finally published after a 90-day delay, while Pizza Hut’s FE skills training has been rated ‘requires improvement’. South Essex College, which teaches around 11,500 students, received a ‘good’ overall grade in a report published […]
