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Another 10 new providers suspended from taking on apprentices

Ten more new 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 making ‘insufficient […]

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Ofsted watch: Dismal week for general FE and specialist colleges

It’s been a dire week for general FE and specialist colleges, after Ofsted handed two of the former grade three ratings, and two ‘inadequate’ ratings to the latter. Private providers fared better, after nine scored well in their monitoring visits. But there was one bad apple which was hit with a grade four. Peterborough Regional […]

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Employers say that staff like the flexibility of zero hours contracts. What rubbish…

A lack of job security in further, adult and prison education is making an army of workers mentally and physically ill – and forcing many to take on a second job to make ends meet, says Andrew Harden Staff on insecure contracts working in further, adult and prison education are holding down multiple jobs to […]

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Introducing… Julie Mills

From school drop-out to college chief executive, Julie Mills has not done things in a conventional way When Julie Mills was a 16-year-old in the early 1980s, she quit her sixth-form college and started working in a job centre where she dished out unemployment benefits. Now principal and chief executive of Milton Keynes College and […]

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Ofsted’s new framework is not a good fit with FE providers

With just over two months to go until the new education inspection framework comes into action, Ofsted has found its model for assessing the quality of lessons “does not fit” FE providers. In what one adviser to a former skills minister called an “extremely worrying” admission, the education watchdog said it needs to come up […]

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College run by famous private hospital in the dock over ‘serious’ safety issues

A specialist college, run by a famous private hospital which has treated the likes of Kate Moss and Robbie Williams, has been hit with not one, but two “inadequate” grades after Ofsted found damning safeguarding issues. This week, the education watchdog has published reports into the residential and educational provision at Priory College Swindon, which […]

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IfATE backtracks on proposal to keep assessment grades secret – but they still won’t be published

The government’s apprenticeships quango has U-turned on plans to grade end-point assessment organisations (EPAOs) without sharing the results with them. However, the information will still be kept a secret from the public, and EPAOs will not be allowed to advertise their ratings unless they’re granted special permission. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education’s (IfATE) […]

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Proportion of colleges with over half of lecturers on casual contracts triples

The percentage of colleges employing over half of their teaching staff on casual contracts has tripled to 29 per cent, according to a new report. The University and College Union sent a freedom of information (FOI) request to all colleges and surveyed 789 staff working in colleges, adult education and prison education, which revealed many […]

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College leaders unite – all 203 of them – to demand an end to funding bias towards higher education

Every college leader in England has joined forces and written to the chancellor and the education secretary, demanding the implementation of the recommendations of the Augar Review. The lobbying effort by 203 principals, representing two million learners annually and 180,000 staff, has been spearheaded by Oldham College principal Alun Francis. He told FE Week the […]

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