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The further education sector plays an important role in England’s education system. In 2017/18, the country’s 266 colleges provided education and training to 300,000 apprentices, 600,000 young people aged 16 to 18, and 1.4 million adults. However, it has also received an average 30 per cent funding cut from 2009 to 2019 and staffing levels […]
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Crisis-hit Aspire Achieve Advance was given a £7 million apprenticeships contract increase two years ago despite an investigation that found dozens of funding and success rate “overclaims”, FE Week can reveal. In recent weeks the apprenticeship giant has come under heavy scrutiny after its co-founders resigned and the Education and Skills Funding Agency suspended it […]
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A major financial services training provider has been found to ‘require improvement’, in the only full FE and skills inspection report published this week. Elsewhere, an apprenticeships and adult learning provider was found to be making ‘insufficient progress’ in three themes under review, in a follow-up monitoring visit report. Kaplan Financial, which works with more […]
Ofsted has been left red-faced after carrying out the wrong kind of monitoring visit and incorrectly publishing a report, before quickly deleting it. Inspectors visited Wiltshire Council’s adult and community learning service on July 7 this year, after the provision was given a grade three rating by Ofsted in December 2017. A letter detailing the […]
The co-founders of crisis-hit Aspire Achieve Advance have remained as the apprenticeship giant’s majority owners despite resigning as directors, FE Week can reveal. Peter Marples and Di McEvoy-Robinson, who were the company’s chief executive and main director respectively until last week, had their terminations of directorships confirmed on Companies House this morning. Since their resignations […]
One of the most highly paid FE college principals in the country has stepped down with immediate effect. Andrew Cleaves’ departure from Birmingham Metropolitan College, which he has led since 2014, was confirmed by the college today following local news reports. Cliff Hall has been appointed interim principal until a permanent replacement is found, a […]
Labour has done little to shine a light on the party’s plans for FE policy as the shadow education minister stopped short of going into any details on the subject during her speech at the party’s conference. The hotly awaited address from Angela Rayner did not include any new policy announcements about FE and skills, […]
Lewisham Southwark College is set to become two separate colleges again, just six years after it was formed through a merger. The move was announced today by Joe Docherty, chief executive of NCG, which the college joined in 2017. “This decision will allow the newly-established colleges to develop curriculum programmes that better meet the needs […]
Crisis-hit Aspire Achieve Advance has been telling its staff to not date any paperwork for “planned enrolments” in the midst of a government suspension on recruiting apprentices. Employees at the apprenticeship giant, better known as 3aaa, were also instructed not to tell current and prospective employers that the ban has been placed upon it. The […]
