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Revealed: The 17 winners of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s AEB tender

The providers which have won adult education budget contracts from Greater Manchester Combined Authority have been revealed. The providers will share up to £25 million of the authority’s total devolved AEB, which is worth an annual £92 million from August, after winning contracts under a competitive tender. Contracts will run from 1 August 2019 to […]

News, Adult education, Devolution

Another 10 new providers suspended from taking on apprentices

Ten more new providers have received temporary bans on recruiting apprentices following early Ofsted inspections that found them making poor progress. Since October 2018, the watchdog has been carrying out monitoring visits at every directly-funded provider which won its own contract to deliver training after April 2017. Any that are found to be making ‘insufficient […]

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Ofsted watch: Dismal week for general FE and specialist colleges

It’s been a dire week for general FE and specialist colleges, after Ofsted handed two of the former grade three ratings, and two ‘inadequate’ ratings to the latter. Private providers fared better, after nine scored well in their monitoring visits. But there was one bad apple which was hit with a grade four. Peterborough Regional […]

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Employers say that staff like the flexibility of zero hours contracts. What rubbish…

A lack of job security in further, adult and prison education is making an army of workers mentally and physically ill – and forcing many to take on a second job to make ends meet, says Andrew Harden Staff on insecure contracts working in further, adult and prison education are holding down multiple jobs to […]

Opinion

Ofsted’s new framework is not a good fit with FE providers

With just over two months to go until the new education inspection framework comes into action, Ofsted has found its model for assessing the quality of lessons “does not fit” FE providers. In what one adviser to a former skills minister called an “extremely worrying” admission, the education watchdog said it needs to come up […]

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College run by famous private hospital in the dock over ‘serious’ safety issues

A specialist college, run by a famous private hospital which has treated the likes of Kate Moss and Robbie Williams, has been hit with not one, but two “inadequate” grades after Ofsted found damning safeguarding issues. This week, the education watchdog has published reports into the residential and educational provision at Priory College Swindon, which […]

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Fourth consecutive grade three Ofsted report for college surviving on bailouts

A college that is dependent on government bailouts to survive has been hit with a fourth consecutive grade three rating from Ofsted. Lambeth College finally merged with London South Bank University in February after a two-year delay and leaders were praised by the inspectorate for working “hard” since then to “change the culture of the […]

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The four new key judgments of our inspection framework

Dr Chris Jones sets out the focus of the watchdog’s new framework, which will be in place from September It is always a great pleasure to attend, deliver workshops and speak at the AELP conference, especially now, as we all prepare for the new inspection framework that comes in this September. The new Ofsted framework […]

Opinion

Apprenticeship register reapplication process branded a ‘farce’ by provider

An Ofsted grade two provider has hit out at the government’s “farcical” process for reapplying to the register of apprenticeship training providers, after its bid was rejected on a technicality. According to the guidelines, providers can be exempt from filling out some parts of the application if they have received a short Ofsted inspection confirming […]

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