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Lifeline for Somerset provider devastated by AEB tender

A community learning provider in Somerset that found itself at the sharp end of the adult education budget debacle has been handed a lifeline, with a vital funding meeting with the ESFA. Somerset Skills & Learning, which teaches around 10,000 students but had its funding cut by £1 million last year, will meet officials on […]

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Public Accounts Committee calls for evidence ahead of Learndirect hearing

UPDATE: The PAC has confirmed this hearing will start from 4pm on Monday January 15, and confirmed the witnesses will include Amanda Spielman, Andy Palmer, Peter Lauener, and Jonathan Slater The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has today said they want to hear the views of people that “had a problem with Learndirect” or those concerned […]

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Top ten: FE Week most read news in 2017

FE Week is known for investing in high quality investigative news and with three and a half million page views it’s been another record year. The news team has published 811 articles since January and here are the ten most read. ‘Shocked’ staff sent packing as huge apprenticeship training provider goes bust One of the […]

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First college merger plan for 2018 launched in the south-east

Two large colleges in the south-east, which teach a combined total of nearly 30,000 FE students every year, have announced plans to merge. Bracknell and Wokingham College will join the Activate Learning group – which currently encompasses Reading College, City of Oxford College and Banbury and Bicester College – from August 2018, subject to a […]

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Who got what in Queen’s New Year honours for FE?

The bosses of two colleges located just 10 miles apart have been awarded CBEs in the Queen’s new year’s honours list. Judith Doyle, the principal of Gateshead College, and Dr Lindsey Whiterod, the chief executive of Tyne Coast College (formerly South Tyneside College), were recognised with one of the highest accolades awarded in the list […]

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Barnardo’s left stranded by non-levy tender

Children’s charity Barnardo’s has been left stranded without an apprenticeship training contract through the controversial non-levy tender. The huge charitable organisation has a proud history of placing young people with barriers to work, who often come from vulnerable backgrounds, with smaller employers, and training them as apprentices.  But its chief executive Javed Khan spoke of […]

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Ofsted Watch: ‘Good’ tidings for FE providers before Christmas

Ofsted has delivered an early Christmas present to FE, with six providers climbing up the rankings including one college moving from grade four to grade two in the space of a year.  Hereward College of Further Education was deemed to be ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted in October 2016, with particular concerns raised over the safeguarding of […]

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‘Inadequate’ employer provider still on apprenticeship register

A FTSE 100 employer-provider has not been kicked off the register of apprenticeship training providers, even though Ofsted gave it a grade four nearly six months ago. The Compass Group is still permitted to take on new apprentices in its capacity as a subcontractor, and has only stopped recruiting them on a voluntary basis. According […]

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ESFA to delay non-levy tender contracts as complaints mount up

The ESFA is extending the non-levy tender’s 10-day standstill period to December 28, meaning no contracts will be given to successful providers next week, FE Week understands. Results of the procurement, which has frustrated the sector all year after being plagued with delays and an aborted first attempt, were finally released on December 7. The […]

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