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Is linking funding to outcomes more trouble than it’s worth?

Using learner destination data to determine funding for FE is “fraught with difficulty,” according to Geoffrey Stanton. The recent Skills Funding Statement indicates that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is considering “how funding can be more strongly linked to outcomes in future”. In post-19 FE and training, funding is, of course, already […]

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Outstanding college rapped over academy standards

An academy backed by grade one-rated Walsall College has been warned by the government about “unacceptably low” standards. The Secretary of State and I are therefore satisfied that the standards of performance at Mirus Academy, Walsall, are unacceptably low,” Schools Minister Lord Nash has written to Walsall College Academies Trust chair Jatinder Sharma (pictured), who […]

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Tech group urges minister for online content quota

All publicly-funded FE and skills courses should have a minimum of 10 per cent online content by 2015/16, a government technology task force has recommended. The Further Education Technology Action Group (Feltag) report, unveiled in draft at the Education Innovation Conference in Manchester, also said there should be incentives to move the online course content […]

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Provider told ‘stop running our quals’ by NCFE

A Warwickshire-based provider has been ordered to stop running qualifications from a leading awarding organisation after it investigated allegations of malpractice. NCFE has notified us of the outcome of its investigation. This is a matter for NCFE and Bright.” Bright Assessing, which has boasted a pass rate of between 95 and 100 per cent, has […]

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Outstanding college gets government warning over academy

An academy backed by grade one-rated Walsall College has been warned by the government about “unacceptably low” standards. Schools Minister Lord Nash has written to Walsall College Academies Trust chair Jatinder Sharma, who is also the college principal, with a “pre-warning notice” over standards at the Mirus Academy. He warned that the sponsor college, which just under […]

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Jobcentre Plus to help 16 and 17-year-olds, Deputy Prime Minister to announce

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is today expected to announce a raft of measures to help young people get into work, including allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to get advice from Jobcentre Plus centres. In a speech at Southfields Academy in London, Mr Clegg is also due to promise to “ramp up” the requirement on schools […]

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Provider ordered to stop quals after malpractice probe

A Warwickshire-based provider has been told it can no longer offer qualifications from a leading awarding organisation after it investigated allegations of malpractice. Bright Assessing, which has boasted a pass rate of between 95 and 100 per cent, has been told it will “no longer have any involvement in the administration, delivery, assessment, moderation, invigilation and certification” […]

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Fisher defends Barnfield as £1m funding claim passed to police

Dame Jackie Fisher has defended new employer Barnfield Federation amid claims it got £1m of government funding for learners it had no record of teaching. Within days of Dame Jackie taking over as chief executive of the Bedfordshire-based federation last week, it emerged official reports in which the claims were made had been passed onto […]

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McDonald’s education head gets bite at UK apprentice job

The appointment of McDonald’s education chief Sue Husband as England’s new apprenticeships boss has been welcomed by FE sector leaders. Ms Husband, national education manager at McDonald’s Restaurants Ltd UK, will fill the shoes of David Way, who stepped down as director of the Skills Funding Agency’s apprenticeship division in August. Stewart Segal, chief executive […]

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