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Labour promises to raise the FE funding rate and reform the apprenticeship levy

Labour has pledged to raise the base rate of per-student funding in FE to secondary-school levels and expand the apprenticeship levy if it wins power. Jeremy Corbyn launched the party’s manifesto at Birmingham City University today ahead of the general election on December 12. The Labour leader vowed that the party would “make lifelong education […]

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AELP fear funding agency considering outright subcontracting ban

The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has today recommended a new, more “robust approach” to subcontracting in an effort to avoid an outright ban. Subcontracting in FE, the practice of one provider paying another to deliver the training, has never been far from scandal and controversy. It has already been banned for advanced […]

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College with ‘failed’ Grenfell-style cladding to remain open for 16 to 18-year-old residents despite Bolton fire

This evening the Department for Education (DfE) has said there remains “no immediate safety concerns” at a college halls of residence with cladding that has failed a safety test, despite a university student halls catching fire. It is understood that around 100 people were evacuated and two people suffered minor injuries at a Bolton University […]

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Ofsted watch: Healthcare providers criticised in ‘outstanding’ week for colleges

Two healthcare providers have been told to get in shape while one college was found to be ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted this week. Divad Training will likely be struck off from new apprenticeship starts after inspectors found it had made ‘insufficient progress’ in two areas. It trains 425 learners in mostly health and social care and […]

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The future of colleges: Can edtech deliver its utopia?

Technology has transformed further education. But at what cost, asks JL Dutaut. The history of edtech is after all a story of failures Paul Feldman, chief executive of Jisc, further education’s main technology body, wrote last month of the sector’s role in addressing the demands of a changing world of work and the importance of […]

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Profile: Ali Hadawi

Ali Hadawi left FE for business. But as the principal of Central Bedfordshire College tells Jess Staufenberg, something just didn’t feel right Ali Hadawi tried to leave teaching once. It didn’t go well. He was in his third job in FE after starting off as a lecturer at Sheffield Polytechnic (as it was then) during […]

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Ofsted: Campus grades on the cards for 2020

A move to campus-level Ofsted grades for college groups is back on the cards and they could be introduced as soon as next September, FE Week can reveal. The education watchdog will shortly meet with college leaders to discuss the move and a consultation will be run early in the new year. If support for […]

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Small business fury over Hadlow administration

“The b***ards” was the reaction of one of many small businesses owed thousands of pounds by the first college to go into education administration. Albion Fencing and Construction is one of 300 creditors awaiting a total of £40 million by Hadlow College, according to administrators BDO’s statement of proposals. “It could not come at a […]

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First ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating for FE college under new framework

The first college to receive a grade one rating under Ofsted’s new inspection framework is Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group. Inspectors graded the college ‘outstanding’ across the board, in a glowing report published this morning. Principal Karen Dobson (pictured) said while the inspection was “intense”, getting the top grade was “absolutely brilliant” and a testament […]

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