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A college has rescued an independent provider from going bust, saving around 70 jobs and the learning of “hundreds” of students and apprentices. Middlesbrough College has purchased the business and assets of its neighbour TTE Technical Institute for an undisclosed fee. TTE had run into financial difficulty, largely due to a “significant” deficit in its […]
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“Genuine ineptness” has led to a surprise £10 million deficit at a large London college group, its chief executive has told FE Week. Capital City College Group (CCCG) had budgeted for a £750,000 surplus for 2018/19, which was revised downwards by July to a deficit of £5.1 million and following an independent investigation in September […]
Two providers scored highly in the first run of Ofsted early monitoring reports for specialist colleges, in a week that saw a struggling general FE college receive its ninth inspection report in just six years. From autumn 2019, Ofsted started to carry out monitoring visits to independent specialist colleges newly ESFA-funded from August 2018 onwards. […]
The national finalists of the 2020 AAC Apprenticeship Awards have been announced. Forty-four organisations and individuals have been shortlisted in 22 categories after more than 350 entries were submitted by colleges, training providers and employers. The awards were first launched in 2017 by FE Week and the Association of Education and Learning Providers (AELP). Managing […]
A software firm and three providers working in the care sector have been heavily criticised by Ofsted, in a mixed week for FE providers. Genius Software Solutions Limited was one of two new private providers to be awarded three out of three ‘insufficient progress’ grades in early monitoring reports. The education watchdog found its apprenticeships […]
In the nine years and 300 editions of FE Week, there is one story that best sums up our consistent and dogged determination to report the facts: Learndirect. For the first and hopefully last time, a lawyer representing the country’s largest training provider emailed me at 11pm on a Friday in the summer of last […]
Opinion
A college embroiled in an expenses scandal has appointed an experienced FE leader as its interim principal. Penny Wycherley (pictured) will take over Stella Mbubaegbu’s responsibilities as principal at Highbury College from today after the latter was suspended last month. It follows intervention from the FE Commissioner, who recently moved Highbury into “supervised college status”. […]
The first applications in five years have been lodged for new university technical colleges, FE Week can reveal – but there is a catch. Three new UTCs are in the pipeline but, like a traditional school, students will join aged 11, rather than at 14. The Baker Dearing Trust, which owns the licence to the […]
“Many” employers working with a new independent provider for the care sector did not know their staff were on apprenticeships, Ofsted has found. Care Assessment Training Services was deemed to have a made ‘insufficient progress’ in two areas of an early monitoring visit for a host of issues with its provision to 102 apprentices. The […]
