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A four-pronged approach to turning around the fate of Functional Skills

Functional Skills could have been saved from the qualifications scrapheap with Skills Minister Nick Boles having revealed hopes for them to become “legitimate, valid, respected and admired”. Roger Francis looks at how this might be achieved. The government’s decision to change its policy on Functional Skills, which was reported in FE Week, will be warmly […]

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Exclusive: Functional skills handed lifeline

Functional Skills could be set for a return to government favour with Skills Minister Nick Boles having revealed plans to make the qualifications “legitimate, valid, respected and admired”. The qualifications, which aim to equip learners with basic skills in English, maths and ICT, have increasingly been seen as mere “stepping stones” toward GCSEs by some, […]

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Bright into administration

Independent learning provider Bright International Training has gone into administration. The Warwickshire-based company, also known as Bright Assessing, has been placed in the hands of administrators BDO. Bright was left without an awarding organisation after NCFE stopped certificating its courses in February and OCR and Ascentis followed suit four months ago. It left hundreds of […]

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New awarding body steps in to certificate 500 of the more than 30,000 paying learners left stranded

A troubled provider which has been struggling to get courses certificated has been approved by a new awarding body to support 500 of the more than 30,000 paying learners affected. As reported last week, the awarding organisation (AO) NCFE stopped certificating Rotherham-based provider My Distance Learning College (MDLC) claiming it had around £20,000 of “outstanding […]

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Reed recruitment agency stops re-selling My Distance Learning College courses amid row over 32,000 paying-learner certificates

A major recruitment agency has stopped re-selling courses run by troubled Rotherham-based provider My Distance Learning College (MDLC) amid concerns over the certification of more than 30,000 paying learners. NCFE stopped certificating MDLC claiming it had around £20,000 of “outstanding invoices owing,” while the Cache (Council for Awards in Care, Health and Education) awarding organisation […]

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Financial dispute leaves ‘32,000’ paying students at My Distance Learning College in dark over certificates

A Rotherham-based provider has warned that 32,000 paying learners might not get their certificates after a number of awarding organisations pulled their approval. NCFE (formerly the Northern Council for Further Education) has stopped certificating My Distance Learning College (MDLC) claiming it had “outstanding invoices owing”. And it has also emerged that awarding organisations Cache (Council […]

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Details of long-awaited new Esol quals finalised

Details of long-awaited new English for Speakers of Other Languages (Esol) qualifications due to run from next month have been finalised, FE Week can exclusively reveal. Awarding organisations (AOs) including NOCN and City & Guilds have agreed their latest Skills for Life (SfL) offers with Ofqual. The quals have been under development since February last […]

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Ofqual looks at scrapping QCF rules and reviews qualification sizes

Ofqual has launched two 12-week consultations looking at the future of the qualifications and credit framework (QCF) rules and how awarding organisations (AOs) estimate and describe the size of their qualifications. The consultation on the QCF, which was launched in 2008, proposes that qualifications be regulated by Ofqual’s general conditions of recognition. The second, Guided Learning […]

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Commons education committee to investigate vocational education before general election

Vocational education will be the focus of the House of Commons Education Select Committee’s last inquiry before the general election, its chairman has announced. Conservative MP Graham Stuart (pictured) told the Higher Ambitions Vocational Education Summit in London yesterday (Tuesday, July 8) that his committee would use its last inquiry before the election next May […]

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