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UCU deal reached with university-backed college to increase pay but reduce teaching time

Strike action at cash-strapped Lambeth College has been cancelled after union members managed to negotiate a 3 per cent...

Jessica Fino
Jessica Fino
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College in £37m debt given permission to carry out banned tactical subcontracting

The Department for Education appears to have given a cash-strapped college special treatment, after it endorsed subcontracting to meet...

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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University takeover of struggling college delayed, again

A cash-strapped London college’s on-off planned merger with a university has been delayed yet again. Lambeth College is now...

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Struggling college ‘expects’ £25 million bailout as university merger hits buffers

Lambeth College, which was served with a notice of concern for financial control by the Education and Skills Funding...

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Ofsted criticises ‘financial mismanagement’ at college preparing to join with university

Governors have been criticised for being slow to recognise “financial mismanagement” at Lambeth College, in new report unveiled by...

Paul Offord
Paul Offord