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Energy Coast becomes second ever ‘outstanding’ UTC

A university technical college in Cumbria is celebrating after becoming only the second of its kind to be rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted. Energy Coast UTC opened in 2014 and got off to a shaky start when the education watchdog first came knocking and graded it ‘requires improvement’. It also currently holds a financial notice to […]

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Merger plans announced for East Riding College and The Grimsby Institute

A college in the Humber has announced plans to merge with one of the largest FE provider’s in the country, in a bid to “safeguard their long term sustainability”. East Riding College will join the TEC Partnership, formerly known as the Grimsby Institute Group, in the summer of 2020, subject to a public consultation. The […]

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IfA blasted for introduction of ‘unfair’ apprenticeship fee

Assessment organisations have hit out at the Institute for Apprenticeships’ “unfair” decision to start charging £40 per learner for apprenticeship quality assurance from September. Tom Bewick, the chief executive of the Federation of Awarding Bodies, has penned a letter to the institute’s boss Sir Gerry Berragan about the issue after his members “raised several concerns”. […]

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Revealed: The 17 winners of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s AEB tender

The providers which have won adult education budget contracts from Greater Manchester Combined Authority have been revealed. The providers will share up to £25 million of the authority’s total devolved AEB, which is worth an annual £92 million from August, after winning contracts under a competitive tender. Contracts will run from 1 August 2019 to […]

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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 […]

Opinion

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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