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Somerset Skills & Learning to make more redundancies after latest AEB tender debacle

Staff are being made redundant at a large community learning provider in Somerset after it was dealt yet another damaging blow from an Education and Skills Funding Agency tender. Somerset Skills & Learning was refused a £1.1 million contract in the recent national adult education budget (AEB) procurement, leaving the education of 300 people hanging […]

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Troubled college forced into last-minute change of merger partner

A troubled college’s plans to merge with a major college group have been abandoned at the eleventh hour after “significant financial liabilities” were uncovered. Oxford-based Ruskin College had been set to join neighbouring Activate Learning at the end of July, but it has been announced it joined the University of West London last Friday instead. […]

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UK Training Provider The Skills Network announce new Sexual Consent course following changes to Ofsted regulations

In response to updated regulatory guidance on safeguarding against sexual harassment and crimes within education settings, UK training provider The Skills Network steps up to the mark to help tackle the educator skills gap. The Skills Network have developed a new sexual consent course in response to the updated guidance to safeguarding practices in education […]

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ESFA U-turns on banning providers from assessing learning difficulties for funding

The government has U-turned on a controversial new funding rule which could have meant apprentices’ learning difficulties could have gone undiagnosed. In its draft 2021/22 apprenticeship funding rules for main providers, the Education and Skills Funding Agency had proposed banning providers from assessing apprentices for funding for any learning difficulties as a standard part of […]

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High praise for university in first tranche of Ofsted’s level 6 and 7 apprenticeship inspections

Ofsted’s first new provider monitoring visits of level 6 and 7 apprenticeship provision have resulted positive results for higher education providers, including a glowing report for a university. Inspectors found ‘significant progress’ in two of the three themes judged at the University of Worcester, which gained praise for “thorough” quality assurance procedures, “precise” assessment of […]

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UTC jumps from Ofsted ‘inadequate’ to ‘outstanding’ in a year

A university technical college (UTC) has been rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted just a year after being hit with the inspectorate’s lowest possible judgement. UTC Portsmouth was slapped with an ‘inadequate’ rating in a report published in July 2020 after it failed to provide effective safeguarding arrangements. But thanks to “swift” action from the senior leadership […]

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100 jobs at risk as combined authority rejects WEA’s adult education bid

Around 100 jobs are at risk at one of England’s largest charitable adult education providers after a mayoral combined authority chose to defund it. The WEA, formerly the Workers’ Educational Association which was founded over a 100 years ago, says it will see a cut of £1.7 million after the South Yorkshire Combined Authority rejected […]

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Provider-level achievement rates to return in 2021/22

Next year’s provider-level qualification achievement rates (QARs) will be published following a two-year suspension. The Department for Education has today confirmed school and post-16 accountability arrangements for 2021/22. It said results from key stage 4 and post-16 qualifications in 2021/22 will be published in school and college performance tables using the government’s “normal suite of […]

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University apprenticeships to be externally assessed

Degree apprenticeships will have to assessed with an industry expert who is independent of the university, under new proposals published today. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has launched a consultation on changes to how degree apprenticeships are created, run and examined. One of their proposals is for the end-point assessments of all degree […]

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