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Education giant City & Guilds announced today it has acquired its second training provider in two years. Intertrain, a large provider for the railway industry, is the latest acquisition after Gen2, which claims to be the largest training provider to the UK civil nuclear industry, joined in May 2017. City & Guilds Group declined to […]
News
A scandal-hit college and the first to enter education administration owes £40 million to over 300 companies, charities and government agencies, FE Week can reveal. Three insolvency practitioners, all from BDO LLP, were assigned to Hadlow College in May 2019 and their joint report is due to be published next week. FE Week has been […]
The Lib Dems have pledged to give every adult in England £10,000 to put towards education and training. In what the party called a “new era of learning throughout life”, the cash would be placed into a “skills wallet” over a 30-year period. They would put £4,000 in there by the age of 25, £3,000 […]
Grzegorz Bogdanski is being forced by the government to repay a £5,421 loan for an FE course he claimed he never started, or even realised that he had signed up for. The 34-year-old construction worker said that all those involved have “washed their hands” of his case and described the Department for Education (DfE) as […]
A new provider that has learners on its programme who did not even know they were apprentices overshadowed a ‘good’ week for FE, especially colleges. Welcome Skills Limited received three ‘insufficient progress’ grades in an early monitoring report, with inspectors finding leaders do not “design or plan” programmes that enable its 329 apprentices to make […]
Colleges must put sustainability at the heart of their teaching – and that means far more than tweaking the curriculum, says Cerian Ayres Recent protests around the world demonstrate that communities are unifying on the need for sustainability in how we interact with our environment. But how should education respond, and what does this mean […]
Opinion, net zero
“Two acres of peaceful gardens create a calm environment and help them relax, enabling all to concentrate fully on their studies.” That might sound like a line of prose or a review for a relaxing country retreat – but it is in fact an excerpt from an Ofsted report under the new inspection framework. Language […]
This week we report the case of Grzegorz Bogdanski, who was duped into a taking a £5,000 FE loan by a Southampton based training firm. The firm, Edudo, had persuaded West London College (WLC) they could be trusted to be a subcontractor for this new source of funding. So technically, Grzegorz Bogdanski and others like […]
Opinion
Ofsted is launching research into FE subcontracting – off the back of government plans for a radical overhaul of these rules amid high-profile cases of “deliberate” fraud. Inspectors will carry out pre-arranged visits this autumn to a variety of subcontractors that have contracts with providers who have been recently inspected. At the same time, Ofsted […]
