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ESFA reveals spending and audit rules for £96m 16-19 Covid tutoring fund

Colleges and other 16 to 19 providers will be paid at least an additional £150 per disadvantaged learner next year to help them catch-up with the studies they missed during the Covid-19 pandemic. But providers will need to prove that the funding has been spent to support tuition activity “above and beyond the programmes of […]

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Revealed: The 20 college partnerships to share the £5.4m College Collaboration Fund

Twenty college partnerships will receive grants through a fund designed to develop greater collaboration across the sector, the government announced today. Skills minister Gillian Keegan has named the winners of the £5.4 million College Collaboration Fund (CCF). It builds on the Strategic College Improvement Fund. The 20 partnerships are: CCF lead college Partner colleges Dudley […]

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Profile: Nav Chohan

FE Week meets a principal whose small and perfectly formed college provides a fitting platform from which to launch a big recovery The miracle college turnaround. The supersized provider. The super-principal. The disruptor who transformed the system. We’re all guilty of fetishising the big and bold stories. You won’t find that here. Instead, you’ll find […]

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Brighton college receives emergency bailout as chief executive quits

A chief executive has resigned after his college hit serious financial problems that led to a plea for emergency funding and triggered formal FE Commissioner intervention. Nick Juba (pictured) quit Greater Brighton Metropolitan College (GB Met) “some weeks ago” after five years at the helm. In an unusual move, Andy Green, who is currently the […]

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How to assess learners’ starting points and personalise curriculum plans

Ofsted’s new Education Inspection Framework (EIF) has changed the way learning is delivered, with increased scrutiny on the ability to conduct and evidence learners’ starting point assessments. Providers now need to have clear methods that identify learners’ prior knowledge, skills, and career goals – before they start their course. Naturally, you should use this insight […]

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Ofsted confirms shake-up of redress system – but will give providers longer to complain

Ofsted has confirmed it will proceed with a shake-up of the redress system for inspections, but will give providers five working days to complain, rather than two. The watchdog has published the outcome to its consultation on changes to complaints, which was launched in March. The consultation proposed that formal complaints raised by education providers […]

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Ney report finds depleted ESFA missing early warning signs of college financial failure

Staff cuts to the Education and Skills Funding Agency have been a key factor in their failure to spot early signs of college weaknesses, the long-awaited independent report into oversight of college finances has found. Dame Mary Ney was commissioned by former skills minister Anne Milton in August 2019 to conduct a review after the […]

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Labour: Ney report exposes ministerial unawareness of financial crisis ‘engulfing’ colleges

Dame Mary Ney’s report into college financial oversight exposes a “decade of austerity” and a lack of ministerial awareness of the financial crisis “engulfing” the FE sector, Labour’s shadow apprenticeships minister has said. Toby Perkins added that the failure in oversight has been “exacerbated by the Tory cuts to the civil service”. He was responding […]

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Nine things we learned from Ofsted’s 2019-20 annual report and accounts

The education watchdog Ofsted has published its corporate annual report and accounts, which give an update on the inspectorate’s performance as an organisation throughout 2019-20. The document is not to be confused with its official annual report, which is a report to parliament on its inspection activity, and is normally released in the winter. Here […]

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