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Apprenticeship providers forced to report off-the-job hours after NAO criticises lack of oversight

Providers will be forced to log apprentices’ off-the-job training hours from September, following high-profile concern about non-compliance with the unpopular rule going unchallenged. A new data field for individual learner records (ILR) is being introduced for 2019/20 to “provide information about the quantum of off-the-job training delivered” and “help demonstrate compliance with the funding rules”, […]

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College that received £21.9m bailout to cut 39 jobs

Nearly 40 staff are expected to lose their jobs as part of a restructure at a college that received a government bailout of over £20 million last year. Stoke-on-Trent College is currently consulting on the plans that will not affect frontline teaching roles, but will see up to 103 staff in business support roles having […]

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Minister and local MP in ‘shock’ at ‘tragic’ decision to close Stourbridge College

The decision to close down Stourbridge College was a “shock”, the digital minister and town’s local MP has said, describing its loss as “tragic”. News broke this morning that Birmingham Metropolitan College will sell off the college just four years after it underwent a multi-million pound makeover. It’ll transfer its 900 learners to nearby Dudley […]

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English and maths GCSE resit policy helping tens of thousands

The policy requiring students to continue studying English and maths if they fail the subjects at GCSEs at age 16 continues to bear fruit, as revealed in FE Week’s analysis of the government’s latest attainment figures. The controversial “condition of funding” policy, introduced in 2014, means that colleges must help students who narrowly failed to […]

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Ofsted watch: Universities stand out, while some big colleges fall short

Universities have stood out from the pack this week, while other types of providers have not done as well, including two big colleges which dropped to grade three. But it wasn’t all bad news for the college sector, as London South East Colleges, which has 10,000 learners, received a glowing grade two report. The University […]

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English and math GCSE resit policy is proving successful but remains misunderstood

As we report this week, the latest DfE attainment figures reveal that since the introduction of the ‘condition of funding’ rule there has been a massive increase in those at first failing, but subsequently achieving English and maths GCSE by the time they are 19. In fact, calling it a massive increase is probably an […]

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BMet to close Stourbridge College in bid to pay back debt

A college that underwent a £5 million makeover just four years ago is set to close, following a review by the FE Commissioner. Stourbridge College, which makes up Birmingham Metropolitan College, alongside four other main divisions, will transfer its 900 learners to two other nearby colleges in September. Dudley College of Technology will take on […]

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Training firm with 2,000 learners goes bust

A training provider with over 2,000 learners has gone into administration, with the loss of 69 jobs. James Lumb and Howard Smith from KPMG were appointed as administrators to Inspire 2 Independence (i2i) on April 29. Lumb, a director at KPMG, said the provider, which offered employability and apprenticeship programmes through its 13 sites across […]

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DfE has finally found an organisation to inspect the quality of unregulated apprenticeships

The government is expected to announce which regulator will inspect the quality of learning for level 6 and 7 apprenticeships without a prescribed HE qualification, such as a degree, in the coming days. FE Week was first to expose the lack of oversight for thousands of these apprenticeships in November, which are currently not the […]

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