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Skills minister personally delays controversial Kensington college merger

A controversial merger between two London colleges has been delayed after an intervention from the skills minister and the...

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Special interview: Minister speaks to FE Week about careers strategy

The long-awaited careers strategy was revealed to the world in a conference hall in Solihull earlier today. FE Week...

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Milton reveals four pillars of new careers strategy

The four main themes of the government’s widely anticipated careers strategy have been set out by the skills minister,...

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Milton appears to back subcontractor inspections

The skills minister has appeared to agree that Ofsted should inspect subcontractors during an exchange at education questions in...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Milton only appoints Conservative MPs as apprenticeships ambassadors

Three Conservative MPs have today been named as apprenticeship ambassadors by skills minister Anne Milton. Maria Caulfield, Stephen Metcalfe,...

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Minister ‘misled’ MPs over apprenticeships at Learndirect

MPs were “misled” in Parliament by the skills minister Anne Milton today, after she claimed apprenticeships are “no longer...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Minister announces T-levels delay

The first T-levels will be delayed until September 2020 – a year later than planned – the government has announced...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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DfE confirms £267m underspend of 16-19 budget in last two years

A whopping £130 million per year has gone unspent in 16 to 19 funding for each of the past...

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Who is Anne Milton? 11 facts about the new skills minister

FE Week has today exclusively announced that our sector’s new apprenticeships and skills minister will be Anne Milton, a...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson