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Barnfield College could lose its apprenticeships provision

Barnfield College has been rated grade four by Ofsted for apprenticeships, which means it will lose the right to offer them under updated government rules. An inspection report out this morning rated it ‘requires improvement’ in all other headline fields, except for adult learning programmes and provision for people with high needs, where it was ‘good’. […]

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College bankrolls failing schools in new academy trust

An ‘outstanding’ FE college is having to bankroll improvements to struggling schools in its new academy trust. Two of its schools are rated ‘inadequate’, one just five months after the chain launched. The Dudley Academies Trust, sponsored by Dudley College of Technology, was handed four schools by the Department for Education last September. One of […]

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Ofsted Watch: Tough week for UTCs as two get ‘requires improvement’

University technical colleges have continued to struggle as two more received grade threes this week, while one FE college got its third ‘inadequate’ rating in five years. South Devon and Buckinghamshire UTCs both had unfavourable reports published on February 26. It was the second ‘requires improvement’ rating in a row for Buckinghamshire which had just […]

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University technical colleges will start recruiting from year 9

Two university technical colleges will start recruiting students a year before the standard starting age of 14 from  September, and another is planning to follow suit in 2019. The JCB Academy in Staffordshire and UTC Sheffield have both confirmed plans to recruit year 9 students from the  start of next academic year. The London Design and Engineering UTC intends to do the […]

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The PAC’s five recommendations following its inquiry into Learndirect

The Public Accounts Committee has today published its report into the monitoring, inspection and funding of Learndirect. Members of the committee grilled the organisations who’ve been closest to the saga involving the nation’s biggest FE provider during a hearing in January. Learndirect was given an ‘inadequate’ rating by Ofsted in a report published in August, […]

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That’s special treatment all right: Accounts committee lays into Learndirect

Learndirect was indeed given special treatment because the government considered it too big to fail, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded in its final report on the saga. The scandal engulfing the nation’s biggest FE provider has engrossed the sector for nearly a year, and the PAC’s round-up asserts that it still “holds the whip-hand” […]

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Public accounts committee wants top-slicing action by August

The government should publish guidance on how it expects management fees to be applied by August, the public accounts committee has said, piling pressure on ministers to act faster on subcontracting. The demand came in the committee’s report on Learndirect, which is published today and slams the provider for charging “unusually high” top-slices of 40 […]

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FE Commissioner: “Structural change” could follow £1.4m emergency cash injection

The FE Commissioner has warned a college may need “structural change” after it was given £1.4 million in emergency cash. A report published today revealed Kirklees College in Yorkshire was issued with a notice of concern on September 28 following a request for exceptional financial support from the Education and Skills Funding Agency. Kirklees College […]

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What’s next for Kensington and Chelsea College?

After local campaigners successfully prevented an unwelcome merger, the college’s chair explains how the board intends to take things forward in a more amenable fashion An FE Week headline recently cast me as the “embattled” chair of Kensington and Chelsea College, but that’s not what it feels like to me. There’s no doubt that this […]

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