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If your skills strategy isn’t funding – it’s not worth talking about

However good a national skills strategy looks on paper, it simply can’t be delivered by a system on the brink of financial collapse, says Mark Dawe

Opinion, Politics

DfE to axe private providers from pre-service FE teacher training

Reforms announced amid ‘quality and value for money’ concerns

News, Colleges

Chris Russell to retire as Ofsted’s national director for education

Senior official will leave at the same time as chief inspector Amanda Spielman in December

News

From rebellious pupil to champion of specialist colleges

Clare Howard, chief executive of Natspec, the body representing specialist colleges, is determined to get their voices heard. But she has been having a tough time of it lately. Further education may feel overlooked by the DfE when compared with schools, but specialist colleges sometimes feel like the ultimate Cinderella service of the education world. […]

Profiles, Long read, RAAC, specialist colleges

Eyes on the prize: Specsavers judged ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted

Optician giant praised for ‘exceptional’ apprenticeship training

News, Ofsted

Awarding organisations are perfectly placed to break barriers to LLE 

Mary Curnock Cook reveals key recommendations to overcome hurdles on the way to launching the new lifelong learning entitlement

Opinion, Adult education

Incoming Ofsted chief ‘misled’ MPs

Sir Martyn Oliver under fire after academy trust exclusion claims

News

Retail apprenticeships provider ‘disappointed’ after Ofsted grade 4

Inspectors critiqued Northern Training Academy’s ‘poor’ training to big-name retailers

News, Apprenticeships, Ofsted

LSIPS: a chance to change, or a chance missed?

Gillian Keegan is determined that local skills improvement plans will ease the nation’s skills crisis. Jessica Hill lifts the lid on the negotiations between the worlds of business and skills.  The LSIPs designed to address the nation’s skills shortages “have to work” and “will work”, Gillian Keegan told FE leaders in her inaugural speech to […]

Feature, News, Long read, Skills reform