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Ofsted to resume visits in September with published reports but no grades

Ofsted will start visiting colleges and training providers again from September – with letters about what the inspectors found to be published but with no grades. The watchdog will also carry out an additional monitoring visit to new providers that have an existing ‘insufficient progress’ rating, which will also result in a “brief” report but […]

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 323

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Baroness Nicky Morgan, Board Member, Careers and Enterprise Company Start date: July 2020 Previous job: Education secretary Interesting fact: Nicky was the first woman ever to chair the influential House of Commons Treasury select committee when elected in 2017 Glenys Pashley-Crawford, Governor, Blackburn College Start date: […]

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Provider shuts its doors to hundreds of young engineering apprentices

A training provider has laid off all 30 staff and shut its door to hundreds of young engineering apprentices, FE Week can reveal. West Yorkshire-based Kirkdale Industrial Training Services Limited (KITS), an Ofsted grade 2 registered charity that is more than 50 years old, informed their staff and the government of the decision to close […]

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Ofsted watch: Colleges see top results from last drop of Ofsted reports until 2021

General FE colleges received a string of positive results, including a grade one, in June from the last drop of Ofsted reports before inspections resume in 2021. However, the watchdog doled out a number of negative results to other providers, which included pushing two providers from grade two to grade four. Seventeen reports were published […]

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Speed read: New rules for subcontracting starting from 2020/21

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has set out the measures it will take to “significantly” reduce subcontracting in further education over the next three years. Headline actions to tackle “poor oversight and fraud” include a cap on the volume of subcontracted provision, a new national “standard” all providers will have to meet, “acting on […]

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Greater London Authority admin for adult education rises to nearly £5m

The cost of managing and administering the adult education budget for the Greater London Authority has shot up to almost £5 million – including £300,000 for a new learner survey. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan was criticised by college principals last year after he took control of the £311 million AEB for the capital but […]

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DfE publish guidance on fully opening FE to young people and adults from September

The Department for Education has this morning published guidance on what FE colleges and providers will “need to do” to fully reopen from September. It confirms that the intention is to welcome back all learners, including adults as well as 16 to 19 year olds. Critically, the DfE said there will be “no set requirement” […]

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Profile: Sarah Stannard

FE Week meets a principal with a history of bravely sailing against prevailing winds. Is her ship about to come in? Sarah Stannard learnt resilience young. The principal of City College Southampton, who cut her teeth in the business world before moving into leadership in FE, was brought up by a Navy man and strikes […]

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ESFA launch second round of supplier relief to run July to October

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has today launched its second Covid-19 provider relief scheme. FE providers can now bid to receive apprenticeship and adult education budget funding in advance of delivery for the period July to October 2020. The first supplier relief scheme was run from April to June and resulted in a third […]

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