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Apprentices put on ‘unpaid leave’ during training, Ofsted finds at provider

Apprentices at an employer provider are expected to be on unpaid leave for two months during a business shutdown while still on their training programme, Ofsted has found. Outdoor learning business Kingswood Learning and Leisure Group will likely be suspended from new starts after the early monitoring visit found it had made ‘insufficient progress’ in […]

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Revealed: London AEB tender funding allocations

The sums being handed to providers under the Greater London Authority’s adult education budget tender have been revealed. In August, the Department for Education devolved the capital’s £306 million adult education budget to the GLA; £130 million of which is being devolved over four years. The tender was launched in October, and the GLA said […]

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The numbers man who’s looking to fill UTC classrooms

Simon Connell, the new chief executive of the Baker Dearing Trust, is on a mission to change perceptions of university technical colleges, he tells Billy Camden   Things are changing at the organisation that runs university technical colleges. The Baker Dearing Trust’s new chief executive Simon Connell is determined that it will move from “quantity […]

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Investing sustainably is everyone’s responsibility

The government’s announcement of extra funding for FE is welcome, but the sector must ensure it is invested sustainably, says Richard Atkins as he sets out his office’s three key priorities for the new academic year With everyone else in the sector, I was very pleased to read about the significant increase in FE funding […]

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Brooklands future in the balance in £20m apprenticeship subcontracting scandal

A college’s future is in doubt after officials demanded it pays up to £20 million back to the government following investigations into a major subcontracting scandal, FE Week can reveal. Brooklands College has been told to pay the funding clawback owing to its dealings with mysterious training firm SCL Security Ltd, owned by Andrew Merritt. […]

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Ofsted watch: Fire and rescue provider brings the heat

A fire and rescue provider received a glowing report from Ofsted this week after receiving ‘significant progress’ ratings across the board, in what was otherwise a mixed week for FE. Staffordshire Commissioner Fire and Rescue Authority, which has 20 apprentices, was praised in its early monitoring visit for “setting high expectations for their apprenticeship programme”, […]

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Welsh college rapped by Ofsted

A Welsh college is to be suspended from recruiting apprentices in England after Ofsted found it making ‘insufficient progress’ in all areas of an early monitoring visit. Gower College Swansea, which claims to have “award winning apprenticeship delivery” in Wales, moved to deliver the provision across the border in October 2017. Its apprenticeship offer in […]

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ESFA suspends another 23 providers from recruiting apprentices

Twenty three more new training providers have received temporary bans on recruiting apprentices following early Ofsted inspections that found them making poor progress. Since October 2018, the watchdog has been carrying out monitoring visits at every directly-funded provider which won its own contract to deliver training after April 2017. Any that are found to be […]

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Banks given £201m to clear college debts during area reviews

Colleges had over £200 million of bank debt paid off by the Treasury during the post-16 area reviews, but civil servants say it is “too early” to determine the programme’s success. An ‘Area review: end of programme report’ was published by the Department for Education this afternoon to provide a “factual record” of the implementation […]

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