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Ofsted reveals key findings from final FE interim visits

Ofsted has today published a summary of what they found during their final “interim visits” of colleges and training providers that took place this autumn. A total of 84 providers were visited between October 19 and December 4 – the majority of which (44, or 52 per cent), were previously judged as ‘requires improvement’. The […]

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Third apprenticeship rate consultation as ESFA considers changes to eligible cost rules

The current apprenticeships rate review is set to undergo its third consultation as the Education and Skills Funding Agency steps in to consider changes to its eligible costs policy. The agency is expected to launch a review of its rules that decide what costs count towards apprenticeship training tomorrow – inviting 600 organisation to take […]

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We must not confuse competition with choice

For most other European countries, education is deemed too important to leave to market forces, writes David Corke Today we published a report showing that excessive competition has led to worse outcomes in 16-19 provision in terms of Ofsted grades, financial health and course choice.  We used various data sets including performance and participation data […]

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Introducing…David Phoenix

David Phoenix, a scientist who heads a group bringing together FE, HE and academies, shows why experimenting with a new model is critical for technical education  Quite how long education secretaries in England have been banging on about “breaking down” the divisions between technical and academic education and their respective sectors is anyone’s guess. At […]

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AoC calls for government to force post-16 providers to collaborate

The Association of Colleges has called for an end to competition in the FE market and for government to force collaboration between all providers which funding is conditional on. The membership body has today published a report that claims competition has had a negative effect on choice, quality and the delivery of specialist courses and […]

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Ofsted’s ‘support’ and monitoring visits from January: what FE providers need to know

Ofsted has today published further details about how their phased return to normal inspection activity of FE providers will work from January. As announced last week, graded full and short inspections will remain suspended until the summer. But monitoring visits will return from the New Year and the watchdog will introduce ‘support and assurance’ visits […]

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In conversation with Paul Joyce about Ofsted’s 2019/20 annual report

Ofsted published its annual report for 2019/20 last week, and while chief inspector Amanda Spielman chose not to use any of her speech to talk about the sector, deputy director for FE and skills Paul Joyce was on hand to catch us up on developments. Here are four key points from FE Week’s interview with […]

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‘Deeply concerning’: Minister’s ‘Skills Toolkit’ figures prove inaccurate, DfE admits

The government has been urged to withdraw claims made in parliament about the take-up of the courses on its new ‘skills toolkit’ after FE Week started asking questions about the figures. Significant over-counting has already led to revised estimates, and an investigation by this publication has found “course start” and “registration” claims in official statistics […]

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DfE WILL share 2020/21 achievement rates with Ofsted

For a second year the critical qualification achievement rates (QAR) for providers will not be published, but unlike last year the data will be privately shared with Ofsted. The inspectorate will again be able to use the QAR data in their inspection judgements as well as being central to their published ‘risk-assessment-methodology’ when deciding which […]

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