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Ofsted Watch: Adult and community learning providers make great gains

Adult and community learning providers have come out the best from this week’s Ofsted reports as two improved to ‘good’ and one ‘inadequate’ council was found making ‘significant progress’. It has been a mixed bag elsewhere, with seven grade three reports and five grade two reports. Bromley London Borough Council upped its Ofsted grade to […]

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Mystery no-notice ESFA audits spark provider anger

Providers are fuming at the Education and Skills Funding Agency after officials started conducting short-notice mystery audits in the wake of the 3aaa scandal, FE Week can reveal. In what appears to be the second major investigation into achievement rate data at FE providers in the past ten years, the agency began carrying out a […]

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Intervention in struggling colleges is painful but necessary

Government interventions can be tough, but they’re necessary if we want to create successful and sustainable colleges, says Anne Milton I wanted to use this month’s column to share with you the work that the FE Commissioner, Richard Atkins, and his team of deputies are doing to champion and support the sector. Almost eight out […]

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Markets aren’t the panacea for public services

The failure of the provider should prompt us to reflect seriously on the role of the marketplace in learning and skills, says Stephen Evans Working Links’ fall into administration is bad news for the people they support and their employees. Its case is different to that of learndirect and other providers. But together, they should […]

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Up to 50 jobs at risk at college group following £30m merger bailout

Up to 50 jobs are on the line at a college group which last year received a £30 million government bailout to help with its merger, a union has said. The University and College Union reacted angrily to the news at Stockport College and Trafford College, which merged in April 2018 and are planning to […]

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NCG temporarily abandons search for new chief executive

England’s largest college group has paused recruitment for a new chief executive after its initial hunt proved fruitless. NCG was left without a permanent boss in October after Joe Docherty left. Docherty was one of eight high-profile principals to step down in a spate of resignations last term. He was replaced by Chris Payne, the […]

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Is a criminal investigation into 3aaa about to begin?

A criminal investigation into disgraced apprenticeship firm Aspire Achieve Advance could soon be launched after the Department for Education requested a meeting with the police. The company, better known as 3aaa, went into administration on October 11 after the government pulled its skills funding contracts following allegations of fraud. Derbyshire Constabulary then started making enquiries […]

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Labour Party to use National Apprenticeship Week to highlight lack of apprentices in the civil service

Labour is planning to use National Apprenticeships Week to attack the government on their commitment to their own public sector apprenticeship recruitment target. Over the last week multiple MPs from the party have submitted a series of questions to ministers asking for the number of apprentices working in their department. The questions have all been […]

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Mega college in debt consulting on demerger

A mega college that recently saw its principal quit before receiving a third consecutive ‘requires improvement’ rating from Ofsted is looking at demerging one of its divisions. Birmingham Metropolitan College, which has five main colleges plus other satellite sites and had an income of £58.5 million and 20,000 learners in 2017/18, is one of the […]

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