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Teacher-assessed qualifications to be excluded from achievement rates – again

Provider-level qualification achievement rates (QARs) will include only some courses in 2020/21, the Education and Skills Funding Agency has announced. Only those that are subject to normal assessment will be included, but qualifications that receive teacher-assessed grades will be left out. The QARs will then be shared with individual providers as well as Ofsted for […]

News

Government careers agency bemoans lack of Baker Clause compliance

The head of the government’s careers quango has bemoaned how independent providers have not been given enough access to schools to talk up technical education. Speaking at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers national conference today, Oli de Botton (pictured, right) committed the Careers and Enterprise Company to this year making sure more students […]

News

The National Colleges debacle reveals Whitehall’s goldfish memory

If ministers did the necessary background research, failed initiatives like the National Colleges would be less likely to be repeated, writes Tom Richmond Albert Einstein famously asserted that “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.  When the policy memory of many government departments – particularly […]

Opinion

Legal apprentice provider penalised by watchdog

A leading commercial training provider for the legal profession has been reprimanded by Ofsted for being too “inexperienced” to deliver high-quality apprenticeships. Datalaw Limited, which has provided professional development for law firms for more than 20 years, made “insufficient progress” in two areas of a new provider monitoring visit conducted last month. The company moved […]

News

Spielman bags two more years as Ofsted chief inspector

Amanda Spielman has been given two extra years in the role of Ofsted chief inspector, the Department for Education has confirmed. FE Week’s sister publication Schools Week revealed earlier this month that the extension had been agreed by government but was awaiting Privy Council signoff. The DfE confirmed today that it is going ahead. Spielman joined the […]

News, Ofsted

College suspends principal just two months before merger

A college being forced into a merger after an audit revealed a £5.35 million over-claim has now suspended its long-serving principal. FE Week has seen an email to Ruskin College staff saying its principal of nine years, Paul Di Felice, has been removed. And a college spokesperson today confirmed he had been “suspended from his […]

News

Ofsted finds apprentices without jobs at provider

Ofsted has chastised an online training provider after finding cases where, “in contrast to the records held”, apprentices did not have jobs. Applied Business Academy Limited (ABA) claimed it was an “isolated incident” but was also called out for poor safeguarding, after the watchdog discovered the provider did not know at least one of their […]

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Provider challenges Ofsted for ‘factually incorrect’ report

A care worker apprenticeship provider is challenging a damaging Ofsted report and accused inspectors of lacking the knowledge to judge their provision. Flexible Training Ltd was found to have made ‘insufficient progress’ in all three areas of an early monitoring visit for its provision of adult care apprenticeships to 21 learners. One key criticism by […]

News, Ofsted

The slow death of adult residential education?

As Northern College fights for survival, FE Week asks – is the government overlooking a big opportunity to ‘level up’?  Lee Hughes was 29 years old when he signed up to Northern College, one of just a few adult residential providers in the country, hidden away in expansive grounds in Barnsley. “It’s a bit of a […]

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