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12 months of FE Week: January
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FE Week
Dec 20, 2019
2019: The year in FE Week cartoons
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FE Week
Dec 17, 2019
Immensely proud to be reporting impartial news without fear or favour
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FE Week
Dec 6, 2019
Rethinking education in the era of the talent economy
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FE Week
FE
Skills
Sep 21, 2019
“What if FE had a transfer window?” asks Dr Sam Parrett.
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FE
FE Week
Staff
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Sep 15, 2019
Investing sustainably is everyone’s responsibility
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State funded
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FE Week
Sep 14, 2019
Adult education slumps to lowest since major survey began more than 20 years ago
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FE Week
FE
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Education
Sep 7, 2019
Wake up call to reverse cuts in lifelong learning
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Adult education
FE Week
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Skills
Sep 7, 2019
FE leaders need mental health support too
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FE Week
FE
Skills
Mental health
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Dec 17, 2017
‘Inadequate’ employer provider still on apprenticeship register
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FE Week
FE
Skills
Apprenticeships Scheme
Employers
Dec 16, 2017
Further education transforms lives and we must protect it
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FE Week
FE
Skills
Dec 16, 2017
How FE colleges can encourage research
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FE Week
Colleges
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Nov 13, 2017
FE practitioner research movement gathers pace
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FE Week
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Nov 13, 2017
FE loans applications down for all established age groups
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FE Week
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Oct 26, 2017
Tendering process finally launched for single awarding organisation plan for prisons
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FE Week
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Oct 26, 2017
Greening: 61 per cent apprenticeships drop was expected
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FE Week
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Oct 25, 2017
Principal resigns as college made aware of “allegations of mismanagement”
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FE Week
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Oct 24, 2017
Pilot applications open for new Strategic College Improvement Fund
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FE Week
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Oct 24, 2017
Search on for top FE leaders to support struggling colleges
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FE Week
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NFLE
Oct 24, 2017
Milton only appoints Conservative MPs as apprenticeships ambassadors
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FE Week
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Oct 24, 2017
Healthy organisations need healthy leaders
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FE Week
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Oct 24, 2017
Ascentis named as awarding organisation of the year
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Oct 23, 2017
Ombudsman warns councils are failing special needs learners
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Oct 23, 2017
Apprenticeship funding model report provokes dismay
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FE Week
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Oct 23, 2017
Tech trailblazers – FE colleges leading the way
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FE Week
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Technology
Oct 23, 2017
Levy cash must be used to widen access to apprenticeships
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FE Week
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Oct 23, 2017
Whitehall can't manage apprenticeship reforms alone
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Oct 23, 2017
WorldSkills 2017: Full medal tables published
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FE Week
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Oct 20, 2017
Ofsted watch: Two colleges improve to ‘good’ rating
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FE Week
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Oct 20, 2017
Colleges lose £1.2 million under controversial condition-of-funding rules
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FE Week
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Oct 20, 2017
Budget 2017: Non-levy funding looms large
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Oct 20, 2017
Cash-strapped college wastes £3m on development plans
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FE Week
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Oct 20, 2017
End point assessment crisis – apprentices who can’t complete
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EPA
Oct 20, 2017
Lack of EPA is a disaster for apprentices and government
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Oct 20, 2017
WorldSkills 2017 – Team UK Souvenir Supplement
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FE Week
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Oct 20, 2017
WorldSkills 2017: Team UK strikes gold in Abu Dhabi
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FE Week
WorldSkills
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Oct 19, 2017
‘DfE must employ civil servants who went to college’ says AoC boss
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FE Week
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Oct 19, 2017
Employers more satisfied with private providers again… but colleges catching up
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FE Week
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FE Choices
Oct 19, 2017
Worldskills 2017: Watch the closing ceremony live from Abu Dhabi
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FE Week
WorldSkills
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Oct 19, 2017
Emotions high as Team UK competitors complete their work
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FE Week
WorldSkills
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Oct 18, 2017
WorldSkills 2017: Team UK’s gold standard show their support before the final hurdle
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FE Week
WorldSkills
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Skills competitions
Oct 17, 2017
Concern at negative impact of FE loans on disadvantaged
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FE Week
FE loans
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Oct 17, 2017
Support Our Sixth-formers: DfE urged to redirect 16-19 underspend
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FE Week
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16-19
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Oct 17, 2017
Somerset provider hit by AEB tender debacle set to make major redundancies and closures
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FE Week
Training providers
AEB
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Oct 16, 2017
WorldSkills 2017: Josh attempts to repeat European success
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FE Week
WorldSkills
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Skills competitions
Oct 16, 2017
Apprenticeships are “fragile” training, research shows
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FE Week
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WISE
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Skills
Oct 16, 2017
WorldSkills 2017: High praise from first skills minister to visit in eight years
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FE Week
WorldSkills
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Skills competitions
Oct 16, 2017
WorldSkills 2017: BAE Systems apprentice aims for gold
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FE Week
WorldSkills
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Oct 15, 2017
Ofsted watch: Sixth-form college lifts grade to ‘good’ in mixed week
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FE Week
Ofsted
Colleges
Training providers
Sixth forms
Oct 13, 2017
Learn from recent history to avert apprenticeship disaster
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FE Week
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Oct 13, 2017
DfE ‘watching it closely’ as management becomes England’s second most popular apprenticeship subject
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FE Week
DfE
Apprenticeships
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Funding
Oct 13, 2017
Ex-ITP boss on trial for alleged Sunderland College fraud
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FE Week
Colleges
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Training providers
Oct 13, 2017
Employer-ownership isn’t compatible with social justice
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FE Week
Social justice
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DfE
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Oct 13, 2017
FE Week asks: Neil Bentley on the vital role of WorldSkills
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FE Week
WorldSkills
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Oct 13, 2017
Outgoing ESFA chief takes “personal responsibility” for Learndirect decisions
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FE Week
ESFA
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Learndirect
Adult education
AEB
Ofsted ratings
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Funding
Oct 12, 2017
What is the action plan for T-Levels?
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FE Week
T-levels
DfE
Post-16
Skills plan
Funding
Technical education
Oct 12, 2017
WorldSkills 2017: A school visit to remember for Team UK
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FE Week
WorldSkills
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Oct 12, 2017
Frustration as 5% tolerance on English and maths extended indefinitely
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Maths
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DfE
16-18
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GCSEs
Oct 12, 2017
First City Training slumps to ‘inadequate’ overall
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FE Week
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Oct 12, 2017
WorldSkills 2017: Touchdown in Abu Dhabi
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FE Week
WorldSkills
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Oct 11, 2017
New senior role for former SFA boss after Positive Outcomes disaster
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FE Week
Leaders
SFA
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Oct 11, 2017
ETF launch large-scale research survey to find out the training needs of the whole FE sector
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FE Week
ETF
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Training
CPD
Oct 11, 2017
T-level priority panel chairs revealed
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FE Week
T-levels
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IfA
Oct 11, 2017
How will EdTech shape the FE sector over the next five years?
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FE Week
Ed tech
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Technology
Oct 11, 2017
Manchester starts tumble by over a third, post-levy
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FE Week
Apprenticeship starts
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Oct 11, 2017
First T-levels announced by minister
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FE Week
T-levels
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Oct 11, 2017
Kensington MP lends weight to college survival campaign
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FE Week
Colleges
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Oct 10, 2017
BAE Systems: Apprenticeships safe from mass job losses
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Oct 10, 2017
WorldSkills 2017: Team UK given send-off at Parliament
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FE Week
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Skills
Oct 10, 2017
College leaders beg Theresa May for more 16-to-19 funding
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FE Week
Colleges
Funding
16-19
Oct 10, 2017
Tender delay with single awarding organisation plan for prisons
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FE Week
Prison learning
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Oct 9, 2017
Ex-learner guilty of rape at college criticised for safeguarding
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FE Week
Colleges
Safeguarding
Sexual assault
Oct 9, 2017
Colleges should embrace blended learning
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FE Week
Colleges
Technology
Jisc
Ed tech
Oct 9, 2017
Lewisham Southwark College’s Cinderella story
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FE Week
Colleges
Ofsted ratings
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Oct 9, 2017
‘Traineeships’ is jargon: talk about careers advice
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FE Week
Traineeships
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NEETs
DfE
Employment
Oct 9, 2017
How to fix degree apprenticeships
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FE Week
FE
Skills
Degrees
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Oct 5, 2017
Anne Milton to speak at AoC Conference
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FE Week
AoC
FE
Anne Milton
Skills
Oct 5, 2017
Struggling PM pledges to create best ever technical education system
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FE Week
FE
Technical education
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T-levels
Oct 4, 2017
Ex LeSoCo principal steps in at troubled Totton College
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FE Week
FE
Skills
Colleges
Ofsted
FE Commissioner
Oct 3, 2017
Education is a market. But who’s buying and who’s selling?
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FE Week
FE
Skills
HE
Degree apprenticeships
Apprentices
Oct 3, 2017
NHS takes action against Learndirect Apprenticeships
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FE Week
FE
Skills
NHS
Learndirect
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Apprenticeships Scheme
Oct 3, 2017
It’s time to rebuild the AEB process
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FE Week
FE
Skills
AEB
AEBs
Adult education
Oct 3, 2017
National Audit Office to investigate Learndirect and the DfE
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FE Week
FE
Skills
Learndirect
DfE
Department for Education
NAO
National Audit Office
Oct 2, 2017
AEB contracts boost will be paid from unspent £200m
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FE Week
FE
Skills
Adult education
AEB
Oct 2, 2017
Somerset provider reopens courses after major AEB increase – but it’s still £1m short
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FE Week
FE
AEB
AEBs
Oct 2, 2017
Greening announces 27 new degree apprenticeships, but no new money
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FE Week
FE
Justine Greening
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HE
Oct 1, 2017
DfE confirms HE fee policy change will apply to FE loans
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FE Week
HE
FE
Policy
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Oct 1, 2017
DfE to announce solution to AEB tender chaos later today
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DfE
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AEB
AEBs
Sep 29, 2017
Colleges should call for Ofsted reform
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FE Week
FE
Colleges
Ofsted
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Sep 29, 2017
Review of apprentice provider list planned
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FE Week
FE
Apprentices
Sep 29, 2017
Editor asks: Can mega colleges ever be too big to fail?
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FE Week
FE
Colleges
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Closures
Sep 29, 2017
First4Skills: what happened after its disastrous collapse?
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FE Week
FE
Skills
Sep 29, 2017
Details of new T-level tendering timeline revealed
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FE Week
FE
T-levels
Sep 29, 2017
Revealed: £200m adult education budget underspend
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FE Week
FE
Adult education
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Sep 29, 2017
Learndirect Apprenticeships tries to avoid the past with major rebrand
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FE Week
FE
Learndirect
Apprenticeships standards
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Sep 27, 2017
More women on boards will increase college success
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FE Week
FE
Gender equality
Colleges
Sep 27, 2017
Grenfell community rage over college sell-off
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FE Week
Grenfell
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Campus
Sep 26, 2017
Rayner pledges £1bn for FE to deliver T-levels
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FE
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Labour
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National Education Service
Sep 26, 2017
NHS ‘reviews’ Learndirect Apprenticeships’ status as a provider
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FE Week
Learndirect
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Sep 21, 2017
AELP calls on government to fund level two apprenticeships in full
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FE Week
AELP
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16-18
Sep 21, 2017
Festival of Learning award-winners named
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FE Week
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Sep 21, 2017
Corbyn speaking at AoC annual conference
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AoC
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Sep 20, 2017
ETF tenders new FE training programme for future CEOs
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FE Week
ETF
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Sep 20, 2017
AoC boss expresses regret over 1 per cent pay offer
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AoC
Unions
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Sep 20, 2017
Cable backs lifelong learning accounts at Lib Dems conference
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FE Week
Lifelong learning
NUS
Post-16
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Funding
Sep 19, 2017
It’s judgement time for the ESFA on degree apprenticeships
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FE Week
ESFA
Degree apprenticeships
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Non-levy employers
UVAC
Apprenticeships
Sep 19, 2017
Adult education budget procurement has been a disaster
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FE Week
Adult education
AEB
ESFA
Funding
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Sep 18, 2017
Two thirds of loan-funded learners from collapsed providers still lack alternative provision
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FE Week
Funding
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#SaveOurAdultEducation
Sep 18, 2017
Ofsted watch: Major retailer ‘requires improvement’
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Ofsted
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Functional Skills
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English
Maths
Sep 15, 2017
DfE given legal ultimatum over botched adult education budget tender
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FE Week
DfE
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Learndirect
Sep 15, 2017
MP blasts stalled merger as a ‘hostile takeover’
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Colleges
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Sep 15, 2017
Ofsted exposes rule breach over unemployed apprentices
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FE Week
Ofsted
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ESFA
Finances
Sep 15, 2017
‘Collusion’ banned in tough new EPA guidance
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Sep 15, 2017
Is Gibb to blame for functional skills reform?
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FE Week
Functional Skills
Nick Gibb
Reforms
English
Numeracy
Phonics
Post-16
Sep 15, 2017
College caught on camera touting for rival’s learners
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FE Week
Colleges
Mergers
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Sep 15, 2017
Damning evidence mounts against DfE over Learndirect
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FE Week
DfE
Learndirect
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ESFA
Sep 15, 2017
ESFA row-back on plans to increase apprenticeship performance threshold
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FE Week
ESFA
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Performance
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Sep 14, 2017
DfE launches its fifth consultation on apprenticeship funding reform
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FE Week
Apprenticeships
Funding
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DfE
Employers
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Sep 14, 2017
Education select committee to investigate subcontracting
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Education Select Committee
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Ofsted ratings
Sep 13, 2017
DfE discussing ‘options’ to reverse provider’s £3m funding cut
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FE Week
Funding
DfE
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Adult education
AEB
Sep 13, 2017
Government funding T-Level ‘high level message’ training for college staff
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T-levels
Training
Colleges
Funding
DfE
Technical education
Sep 13, 2017
Review prompted by autistic teen’s college enrolment heartbreak
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FE Week
Colleges
Special needs
Autism
Enrolments
Sep 12, 2017
Another college merger in doubt following ‘regrettable’ TV comments
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FE Week
Colleges
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Sep 12, 2017
Learndirect and DfE scandal referred to NAO by Public Accounts Committee chair
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Learndirect
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NAO
Public Accounts Committee
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Training
Sep 11, 2017
Minister ‘misled’ MPs over apprenticeships at Learndirect
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Apprenticeships
Skills
Anne Milton
Learndirect
Training providers
Ofsted ratings
ESFA
Funding
Sep 11, 2017
University’s controversial takeover of Lambeth College delayed
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FE Week
Colleges
Universities
Governance
Sep 11, 2017
Education is the missing piece in David Lammy's race review puzzle
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Minorities
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BAME
Pupil exclusions
Sep 8, 2017
Major provider exposed for offering inducements goes into administration
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FE Week
Training providers
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Finances
Sep 8, 2017
Milton grants Somerset MPs emergency meeting with funding agency
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FE Week
Anne Milton
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Adult education
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Sep 8, 2017
Training providers join forces to challenge Justine Greening in court
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FE Week
Training providers
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Justine Greening
AEB
Adult education
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Sep 8, 2017
Only 15 per cent of levy-funded apprentices aged 16 to 18
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FE Week
Apprenticeships
Funding
16-18
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19-24
Sep 7, 2017
Trial begins: Former Welsh footballer and three others accused of £5 million FE fraud
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FE Week
Fraud
Legal action
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Sep 7, 2017
Commissioner report exposes financial turmoil at London SFC
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FE Week
Finances
Colleges
Sixth forms
Funding
Sep 7, 2017
Five new UTCs open doors to students
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FE Week
UTCs
14-19
Student numbers
Closures
Funding
Sep 7, 2017
Urgent investment needed for sixth forms
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FE Week
Sixth forms
Colleges
Funding
16-19
Sep 7, 2017
Two men plead guilty following Serious Fraud Office investigation into Luis Michael Training
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FE Week
Legal action
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Fraud
Sep 6, 2017
Good-rated Somerset provider loses 97% of its adult education budget
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FE Week
Training providers
AEB
Adult education
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ESFA
Sep 6, 2017
Did the government advise Learndirect to withdraw their AEB tender?
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Adult education
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FE Week
Ofsted ratings
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ESFA
Sep 6, 2017
Non-levy tender: It will take over 8 hours just to read the current ‘clarifications’
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FE Week
Non-levy tendering
ESFA
Apprenticeships
Colleges
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Funding
Sep 6, 2017
Cable speaks on new post-16 skills review after ‘dual mandate’ dumped
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FE Week
Post-16
Skills
Sir Vince Cable
NUS
Student unions
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Training
Sep 5, 2017
Learndirect special treatment: ESFA changes policy and awards £45m tender
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FE Week
Learndirect
ESFA
Funding
Training providers
AEB
Adult education
Sep 5, 2017
DfE keeps apprenticeship funding model report secret
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FE Week
Apprenticeships
Funding
DfE
Apprenticeship starts
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Sep 5, 2017
Learndirect: Parliamentary questions pile pressure on ministers for answers
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Learndirect
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AEB
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Adult education
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DfE
Sep 5, 2017
Consultation launched on mega-London college merger amid Grenfell opposition
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FE Week
Colleges
Mergers
Sep 4, 2017
Colleges ‘deeply concerned’ about £650m non-levy tender
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ESFA
Non-levy tendering
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Non-levy funding
AoC
Sep 1, 2017
ESFA £650m non-levy tender has ‘descended into farce’
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FE Week
ESFA
Non-levy tendering
Apprenticeships
Non-levy funding
Sep 1, 2017
AEB procurement fears for third sector providers
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FE Week
AEB
Adult education
IfA
ESFA
Funding
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Disadvantaged
Aug 31, 2017
Serious adult education budget procurement fears for third sector
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FE Week
Adult education
AEB
Funding
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ESFA
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IfA
Ofsted
Disadvantaged
Aug 31, 2017
Ofsted to ask FE learners if they feel safe in residential provision
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FE Week
Ofsted
Colleges
Safety
Inspections
Aug 31, 2017
Non-levy apprenticeship funding tender deadline extended
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FE Week
Apprenticeships
DfE
Procurement
Training providers
Non-levy apprenticeships
Aug 30, 2017
DfE launches £100k tender to independently review complaints against Ofsted
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FE Week
Ofsted
DfE
Aug 29, 2017
U-turn welcomed on funding for employees taught outside the workplace
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FE Week
Employment
Funding
ESFA
AEB
Adult education
Distance learning
Skills gap
Aug 29, 2017
Government outlines single awarding organisation plan for prisons
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FE Week
Prison learning
Awarding organisations
Aug 25, 2017
Ofsted watch: A quiet summer of good news
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FE Week
Ofsted reports
Colleges
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Ofsted ratings
Aug 25, 2017
Learndirect special treatment update: will it be less than £1m or over £30m to ‘wind-down’ AEB?
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Learndirect
AEB
Adult education
Apprenticeships
ESFA
Funding
Aug 24, 2017
GCSE results week: How FE can leverage digital channels to win learners
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Colleges
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Technical education
Aug 24, 2017
Explaining new GCSE grades and what this means for post-16 resits
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FE Week
GCSEs
Exam results
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Post-16
English
Maths
Aug 24, 2017
English and Maths GCSE resit results 2017
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English
Maths
GCSEs
Resits
Exam results
Aug 24, 2017
Tens of thousands more students will need to resit English GCSEs
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Aug 24, 2017
GCSE resits 2017: Sharp fall in maths results but English improves
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Aug 24, 2017
ESFA appoints Eileen Milner as its new chief executive
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Aug 23, 2017
City & Guilds calls for people to share educational experiences that shaped them
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Aug 22, 2017
Institute for Apprenticeships remains the favourite option for EQA
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Aug 21, 2017
DfE’s decision to defend small school sixth form cost £76,000 in fees
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Aug 21, 2017
West Midlands college merger bites the dust for lack of government cash
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Aug 21, 2017
Learndirect special treatment update: Student protection plan demanded as no contracts are terminated
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Aug 18, 2017
Ofsted watch: Two providers crash two grades to inadequate
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Aug 18, 2017
Ex-Wales footballer among 6 facing trial next month on FE fraud charges
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Aug 17, 2017
There is no such thing as equality in funding or inspection
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Aug 17, 2017
Ofsted inspection report for Learndirect finally published
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Aug 17, 2017
What do the people behind the privatisation of Learndirect think now?
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Aug 16, 2017
Grade four Ofsted-rated provider in administration
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Aug 16, 2017
College clings on to RoATP despite ‘inadequate’ apprenticeships
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Aug 16, 2017
Adult education budget descends into chaos
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Aug 16, 2017
DfE confirms special treatment will be given to Learndirect
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Aug 15, 2017
Government ‘making it up as they go along’ on non-levy tendering
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Aug 15, 2017
Rejected appeal application looks like the beginning of the end for Learndirect
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Aug 14, 2017
A-Level results 2017
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Aug 14, 2017
Over 1,600 jobs at risk after Learndirect fails bid to overturn Ofsted ‘inadequate’
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Aug 14, 2017
Ofsted watch: South Essex College bumped up to ‘good’ after 90-day wait
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Aug 11, 2017
How government can widen participation through FE
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Aug 11, 2017
WEA awards nominations close in 10 days
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Aug 11, 2017
Over £1m of public money paid in grants for failed mergers
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Aug 10, 2017
Government sets December deadline in 16-to-18 data reporting crackdown
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Aug 10, 2017
Area review transition grant details published
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Aug 10, 2017
The employer knows better than the ‘man from the ministry’
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Aug 9, 2017
Area reviews in further education: a summary
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Aug 8, 2017
Ofsted watch: Private provider loses ‘outstanding’ rating
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Aug 7, 2017
Three month inspection report delay nearly over, Ofsted claims
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Aug 4, 2017
Area review waves four and five recommendations published
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Aug 3, 2017
DfE call for £600-a-day assessment consultants branded ‘recipe for failure’
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Aug 3, 2017
DfE refuses to reveal April apprenticeship starts
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Aug 3, 2017
Government listen to concerns and pause all apprenticeship framework removals
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Aug 2, 2017
Government revises 29 apprenticeship framework funding rates
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Aug 2, 2017
IfA appoints small exam board as apprenticeship ‘External Quality Assurance’ delivery partner
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Aug 2, 2017
Scrap the new and ‘controversial’ £200,000 non-levy tender minimum, says AELP
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Aug 2, 2017
SFCA welcome significant funding win for two year courses
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Aug 2, 2017
Providers to be blocked by DfE from speaking directly to the media – it’s ‘nonsensical’ says AELP boss
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Aug 2, 2017
Apprenticeship reforms and social mobility under the spotlight in new inquiry
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Aug 2, 2017
A busy day for mergers as 21 colleges join 10 partnerships
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Aug 1, 2017
Hartpury becomes second FE college to earn degree awarding powers
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Jul 31, 2017
IPPR: The apprenticeship levy needs a ‘radical rethink’
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Jul 31, 2017
Flammable cladding discovered at major Birmingham college
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Jul 31, 2017
AEB devolution plans are the latest to face delay
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Jul 31, 2017
DfE report into foreign skills provision omits funding comparisons with England
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Jul 28, 2017
New non-levy procurement launched
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Jul 28, 2017
Ofsted watch: Two providers slump to ‘inadequate’
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Jul 28, 2017
Local authority sets up rival apprenticeship provider register – but will charge
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Jul 27, 2017
AEB tender results pushed back again, now into August
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Jul 27, 2017
Assessment organisation claims ESFA approval for subcontracting model
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Jul 27, 2017
Yorkshire colleges first to publish targets in £56m AEB pre-devolution deal
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Jul 27, 2017
London college merger called off at last minute
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Jul 26, 2017
IfA turns to headhunters after failing to recruit a permanent CEO
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Jul 25, 2017
DfE quick to rebuff ‘evidence’ of employers calling for changes to off-the-job rule
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Jul 25, 2017
Lords launch inquiry into the state of technical education
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Jul 25, 2017
Government’s new crackdown on illegally low wages for apprentices
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Jul 25, 2017
Blackburn College students fume over two-week results delay
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Jul 24, 2017
Government inaction as employers leave apprentices half a million pounds out of pocket
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Jul 21, 2017
Ofsted watch: Three providers branded ‘inadequate’
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Jul 21, 2017
Investigation update: Confusion as government refuses to say if all provider’s funding pulled
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Jul 21, 2017
Minister announces T-levels delay
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Jul 20, 2017
Frontier Economics is right: the T-level tender approach is not viable
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Jul 20, 2017
Why doesn’t FE Week have more diverse representation?
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Jul 20, 2017
T-levels crisis: DfE report warns single awarding organisation ‘unviable’
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Jul 20, 2017
Smith review calls for rethink on GCSE maths resit policy
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Jul 20, 2017
Ten things we learned from the SFA and EFA annual reports
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Jul 19, 2017
How World Youth Skills Day can help with social mobility
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Jul 19, 2017
Ofqual to investigate DCS qualifications fraud
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Jul 19, 2017
Apprenticeship pay survey exposes rise in proportion paid illegal wages
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Jul 19, 2017
Prison education and training needs fixing – here’s how
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Jul 19, 2017
T-Level crisis exposed as DfE fail to appoint any advisory panel members
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Jul 18, 2017
Mystery surrounds late Learndirect performance breach
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Jul 17, 2017
Almost 400 staff face uncertain summer through post-merger job cuts plan
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Jul 17, 2017
First degree apprentices in UK graduate
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Jul 17, 2017
Statistics regulator pressured DfE into achievement rate U-turn
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Jul 17, 2017
DfE confirms £267m underspend of 16-19 budget in last two years
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Jul 17, 2017
Government breaks deferred loan repayments promise
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Jul 17, 2017
Homework should count in 20% off-the-job training rule
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Jul 17, 2017
Reverse the 20% off-the-job apprentice training rule
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Jul 17, 2017
Movers and Shakers: Edition 216
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Jul 17, 2017
20% off-the-job training should be the minimum for apprentices
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Jul 17, 2017
Student helps publicise talking newspaper charity with new website
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Jul 16, 2017
College donates radio equipment to remote Gambian village
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Jul 16, 2017
Corbyn tries his hand at bricklaying during college visit
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Jul 15, 2017
Grimsby boy swaps fish and chips for funeral services
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Jul 15, 2017
All three Tees Valley area review merger proposals fall through
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Jul 15, 2017
Corbyn demands end of FE loans in new Labour push
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Jul 14, 2017
Teaching is at the heart of the skills plan
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Jul 14, 2017
Learner satisfaction still highest with private providers
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Jul 14, 2017
Ofsted watch: Kendal College falls from grade one
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Jul 14, 2017
Ofsted exposed over failure to monitor 1,200 subcontractors
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Jul 13, 2017
ESFA reveals timescales for provider access to £50m work placement pot
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Jul 13, 2017
Ofsted to lose £15m funding by 2020
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Jul 13, 2017
FE champion Halfon elected chair of education select committee
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Jul 12, 2017
Date revealed for when DfE will publish revised 2014/15 achievement rate data
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Jul 12, 2017
All-party parliamentary group on apprenticeships calls for pay reform
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Jul 11, 2017
Training providers are facing uncertain times
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Jul 11, 2017
The apprentice voice improves quality
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Jul 11, 2017
How we achieved Ofsted outstanding for 14-16
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Jul 11, 2017
Halfon hands out ladder flyers in bid to chair education select committee
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Jul 10, 2017
New minister backs construction industry’s double levy
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Jul 10, 2017
Taylor review into ‘Modern Working Practices’ calls for more flexible training
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Jul 10, 2017
It’s time for the devolved authorities to lead on skills
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Jul 10, 2017
Five design students will have their work displayed on London’s new Elizabeth line trains
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Jul 9, 2017
International learners publish a book on their stories of home
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Jul 9, 2017
Quick-fix approach to SEND is poor strategy
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Jul 9, 2017
Animal care students run cattery for homeless felines
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Jul 8, 2017
Manchester United’s class of ’92 launch football programme with Trafford College
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Jul 8, 2017
Association of Colleges restructure plans approved
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Jul 8, 2017
Ofsted watch: Independent provider slumps two grades to inadequate
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Jul 7, 2017
Decisiveness and clarity needed on T-Levels
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Jul 7, 2017
Assessment organisations still lacking for over 1,300 apprentices
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Jul 7, 2017
Most eligible employers not yet on levy system
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Jul 7, 2017
Milton visits first FE college since becoming minister
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Jul 6, 2017
Libyan refugee turned biomedical scientist crowned BTEC student of the year
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Jul 6, 2017
Employers already experiencing work placement ‘fatigue’, DfE commissioned research reveals
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Jul 6, 2017
Official figures show huge increase in apprenticeship starts in month before reforms kicked-in
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Jul 6, 2017
Greening: T-Levels will ‘create an army of skilled young people for British business’
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Jul 6, 2017
Top skills civil servant talks tough on apprenticeship reforms
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Jul 4, 2017
How to get more women into FE leadership
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Jul 4, 2017
Halfon to run for education select committee chair
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Jul 3, 2017
Pair of Buddhist monks teach staff and students the history of Buddhism
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Jul 3, 2017
Ofsted survey tools used by only 2% of learners
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Jul 3, 2017
Movers and Shakers: Edition 214
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Jul 3, 2017
What providers need to know about health and care apprenticeships
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Jul 3, 2017
Replica Viking boat is restored by boat-building apprentices
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Jul 2, 2017
Student films helps local hospital recruit therapy staff
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Jul 2, 2017
Let's get FE and schools talking more
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Jul 2, 2017
Tutor makes giant millionaire's shortbread to celebrate the end of term
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Jul 1, 2017
IT students represent the UK at global coding competition
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Jul 1, 2017
Provider's grade four imperils hundreds of learner loans
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Jul 1, 2017
Anne Milton: New skills minister’s first speech to sector and Q & A in full
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Jun 30, 2017
Ofsted watch: Week of extreme contrasts for providers
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Jun 30, 2017
Minister met with key studio school officials to discuss ‘review’ of model
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Jun 30, 2017
UTCs demand more funding than mainstream schools
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Jun 30, 2017
DfE U-turn on hiding controversial apprenticeship data ‘welcomed’
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Jun 30, 2017
Controversial 2014/15 achievement rate data will now be published
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Jun 30, 2017
Anger as IfA’s apprentice panel presentation postponed
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Jun 30, 2017
Second FE college gets grade one Ofsted in two weeks
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Jun 29, 2017
AEB contracts extended as tender results delayed further
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Jun 28, 2017
Area review ignored as central London set for second mega-college merger
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Jun 28, 2017
Recipe for confusion concern as IfA seeks up to 150 expert advisers
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Jun 28, 2017
Learndirect : One in ten staff could face redundancy at nation’s largest provider
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Jun 28, 2017
ESFA concern: providers subcontracting to employers
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Jun 27, 2017
Skills minister the fixer promises to listen and ‘make it work’
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Anne Milton
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Jun 27, 2017
AELP Annual Conference – day one
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Jun 26, 2017
Merger collapse makes it a dozen area review failures
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Jun 26, 2017
New skills minister brings welcome news as apprenticeship reforms suffer slow start
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Jun 26, 2017
DfE publish long awaited off-the-job training guidance
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Jun 26, 2017
College team win gold award at BBC Gardeners' World Live
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Jun 25, 2017
Digital designers bring primary school drawings to life with modelling software
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Jun 25, 2017
College uses student's art project as a learner recruitment tool
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Jun 24, 2017
Achievement rates at Learndirect fall under minimum standards
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Jun 24, 2017
Prison education reforms on hold for another year
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Jun 24, 2017
NCG and others blame IT ‘glitches’ for achievement rates table absence
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Jun 23, 2017
Ofsted watch: Local authority provider shakes off inadequate rating
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Jun 23, 2017
Colleges in dark over data reporting rule
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Jun 23, 2017
Ofsted chief stresses ‘real challenge’ with apprenticeships register
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Jun 23, 2017
Gold standard for 14 colleges with HE teaching
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Jun 23, 2017
Second consecutive grade four Ofsted for previously ‘outstanding’ college
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Jun 22, 2017
Government urged to do more to rescue struggling UTCs
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Jun 22, 2017
£10 million refund claims expected from colleges as HMRC accepts euro VAT ruling
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Jun 21, 2017
Queen’s speech confirms it is full steam ahead for introduction of T-Levels
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Jun 21, 2017
New skills minister Anne Milton speaking at AELP conference 2017
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Jun 21, 2017
‘Maximum disruption’ criticism of strike picket line planned for enrolment day
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Jun 20, 2017
Private equity firm pay £700 million for major provider
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Jun 19, 2017
DfE blames lack of resources for loans figures suspension
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Jun 19, 2017
Apprenticeship vacancy adverts plummet in May
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Jun 19, 2017
Small sixth forms are no longer viable
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Jun 19, 2017
Aspiring developers showcase their games at international video game show
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Jun 18, 2017
New children and families minister must continue to implement SEND reforms
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Jun 18, 2017
National charity pilots deaf apprenticeship programme
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Jun 17, 2017
Who got what in Queen’s birthday honours for FE
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Jun 16, 2017
College defiant despite damning Ofsted meaning apprentice register removal
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Jun 16, 2017
Eight-month Ofsted turnaround from inadequate to good for UTC
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Jun 16, 2017
Ofsted watch: Two providers rated outstanding and a UTC bounces back
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Jun 16, 2017
Judge and principal blast college nepotism scandal
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Jun 16, 2017
Cash-strapped Harlow UTC looks to join academy trust
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Jun 16, 2017
Investigation into DfE handling of apprenticeship figures demanded by expert
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Jun 16, 2017
DfE could be accused of cover-up over apprenticeship achievement rates
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Jun 16, 2017
City & Guilds Lion Awards winners announced
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Jun 15, 2017
Delayed 2015/16 provider achievement rate tables published
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Jun 15, 2017
Editor Asks: Robert Halfon reflects on time as minister
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Jun 14, 2017
Who is Anne Milton? 11 facts about the new skills minister
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Jun 13, 2017
New minister for apprenticeships and skills revealed
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Jun 13, 2017
First outstanding Ofsted rating for FE college in 14 months
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Jun 13, 2017
English college group wins applied engineering Saudi contract
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Jun 12, 2017
‘New approach’ called for after principal quits
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Jun 12, 2017
Parliament for disabled students meets for the first time
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Jun 10, 2017
Apprenticeship starts, not completions, are the correct target
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Jun 10, 2017
3m apprenticeship starts target is bad policy
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Jun 10, 2017
Nottingham College mega-merger goes through 10 months late
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Jun 10, 2017
Employers slam 'inordinately long' development time for apprenticeship standards
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Jun 9, 2017
£35k-a-year private school seeks £3.50-an-hour apprentice
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Jun 9, 2017
Education ministers retain their seats
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Jun 9, 2017
General election result: what does it mean for FE?
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Jun 9, 2017
Election night 2017: The constituencies to watch if you work in FE
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Jun 8, 2017
Scrapping the education maintenance allowance was a mistake
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Jun 7, 2017
Don't bring back the education maintenance allowance
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Jun 7, 2017
Free Financial Times offer is for FE students too
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Jun 6, 2017
Desperate college seeks university take-over before merger consultation even begins
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Jun 6, 2017
Free further education for all is not a realistic aim
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Jun 6, 2017
Further education and adult learning should be free
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Jun 6, 2017
It’s too soon to make changes to the levy
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Jun 5, 2017
Apprenticeship levy should be more flexible for employers
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Jun 5, 2017
Two large colleges pull back from inadequate Ofsted ratings
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Jun 5, 2017
‘Patchy’ progress with work training for special needs
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Jun 5, 2017
Human books share their stories with students
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Jun 4, 2017
Traineeship to apprenticeship progression rates fall below 20%
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Jun 4, 2017
College offers certified employability course for stroke survivors
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Jun 4, 2017
Racoon dog pups make history at Bishop Burton College
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Jun 3, 2017
NSAFD U-turns on mandatory vetting of apprenticeship qualifications
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Jun 3, 2017
University technical colleges plan to switch recruitment age to 13
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Jun 3, 2017
Further education teaching must be valued
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Jun 2, 2017
Labour pledge could cause teacher supply crisis
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Jun 2, 2017
Ofsted watch: Traineeships silver lining for provider stuck on grade three
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Jun 2, 2017
College pays learners to complete online courses
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Jun 2, 2017
Horror show for degree apprenticeships
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Jun 2, 2017
Principal standing down of recently created FE college
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Jun 1, 2017
Don't double the immigration skills charge
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Jun 1, 2017
IFS: Parties’ spending plans leave 16 to 18 education with 10% less than schools
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Jun 1, 2017
Final two Team UK competitors selected for WorldSkills 2017
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Jun 1, 2017
Whether or not we create Institutes of Technology is not the immediate issue
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May 31, 2017
T-levels are great, but can government make them as prestigious as A-levels?
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May 30, 2017
Don't prioritise vocational over academic routes
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May 30, 2017
Sixth form college principal resigns with immediate effect
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May 30, 2017
Merger of two London colleges agreed
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May 26, 2017
Ofsted watch: Three providers drop to ‘requires improvement’
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May 26, 2017
Tendering for external quality assurance finally launched
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May 26, 2017
NOCN expanding through new acquisition
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May 26, 2017
Call to convert UTCs to 16 to 19 colleges
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May 25, 2017
National provider enters redundancy consultation with staff
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May 24, 2017
College student named as Manchester bombing victim
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May 23, 2017
Can a college chair of governors job share?
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May 23, 2017
ESFA is jeopardising degree apprenticeships
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May 22, 2017
Making the skills market work should be our priority – not ending it
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May 22, 2017
How to improve apprenticeship completion rates
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May 22, 2017
UTCs should be allowed to recruit at 11
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May 21, 2017
Old archives reveal life at a specialist college 50 years ago
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May 20, 2017
What now for colleges that tried and failed to merge?
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May 20, 2017
Ruth Silver: too much flexibility, not enough foresight
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May 20, 2017
Ofsted watch: Provider on apprenticeships register rated ‘inadequate'
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May 19, 2017
Confusion for new providers on RoATP over compulsory training
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May 19, 2017
Assessment organisations put to the customer service test in our mystery shop
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May 19, 2017
‘Alarming’: ESFA still giving one-man bands access to millions
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May 19, 2017
Glacial progress exposed for colleges’ apprentice delivery
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May 19, 2017
Conservatives announce surprise pledge to let levy pay wages
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May 18, 2017
Conservative manifesto pledges for FE and skills published
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May 18, 2017
Updated register of apprenticeship training providers published
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May 17, 2017
Providers finally successful in apprentice register applications
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May 17, 2017
Just three new recruits for chartered status in six months
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May 17, 2017
Lib Dems pledge to double the number of businesses that hire apprentices
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May 16, 2017
Subsidised apprentice travel plan falls off Labour manifesto
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May 16, 2017
Colleges scrap merger plans less than 3 months after announced
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May 16, 2017
Labour manifesto plans for FE and skills unveiled
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May 16, 2017
Pay cut row at struggling north east college
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May 15, 2017
C&G buys apprenticeship agency in effort to corner nuclear industry
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May 15, 2017
Colleges not on apprenticeships’ register still advertising vacancies
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May 15, 2017
What will replace the European Social Fund?
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May 15, 2017
I’ll give FE learners a louder voice nationally
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May 14, 2017
Are the party pledges for FE meaningless?
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May 13, 2017
Ofsted watch: Three colleges slide to grade three
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May 12, 2017
Costs in question after Labour apprentice pledge
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May 12, 2017
Long-distance merger cleared despite council concerns
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May 12, 2017
ESFA need to fess up to their ‘mistake’
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May 12, 2017
Allocations shock: ESFA ‘mistake’ sees massive firms listed as small
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May 12, 2017
Draft Labour Party manifesto FE section in full
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May 11, 2017
Campaign launched to protect vulnerable learners from Brexit cuts
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May 11, 2017
AoC manifesto calls for employer levy funding restrictions
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May 10, 2017
Labour spells out plans to drive apprenticeships quality to FE Week
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May 10, 2017
Lib Dems commit to defending 16 to 19 funding
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May 10, 2017
Paying training bills by Direct Debit could be key to apprenticeship levy success
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May 9, 2017
Principal leaving UTC as year 10 recruitment stopped
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May 8, 2017
Public services students complete 24-hour rowing challenge for fallen police officers
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May 7, 2017
Area review transition fund shrouded in secrecy
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May 7, 2017
3 ways to support apprentices' mental health
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May 7, 2017
College principal goes undercover as a campus security guard
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May 6, 2017
DfE ditches Boles back-to-school plan for apprentices
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May 5, 2017
Ofstedwatch: Contrasting fortunes for colleges
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May 5, 2017
Principal with 30 years’ experience named next AoC president
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May 5, 2017
Anger over campus closure after £6 million refurb
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May 5, 2017
Devastating impact of non-levy allocations ‘horror show’
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May 5, 2017
Don’t shy away from campus grades
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May 5, 2017
Lowest percentage of colleges rated ‘outstanding’
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May 5, 2017
Landmark European court ruling could see colleges refunded millions in VAT
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May 4, 2017
College crashes two grades from ‘outstanding’ after lengthy inspection wait
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May 4, 2017
AELP demands 4 million apprenticeship starts commitment
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May 3, 2017
Commissioner concerned over ‘strain’ on leaders running two colleges
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May 2, 2017
Large London college leaps two grades from inadequate
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May 2, 2017
Ofsted accused of hiding huge gaps between inspections
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May 1, 2017
National College for Onshore Oil and Gas opening delayed
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Apr 30, 2017
Ofsted watch: Concern over weak governance at Manchester provider
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Apr 28, 2017
Levy launch overshadowed by horror story
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Apr 28, 2017
‘Golden hello’ maths teacher recruitment drive flops
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Apr 28, 2017
South-east triumphant at AoC sport championships
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Apr 28, 2017
Crisis deepens as learners drop at two thirds of UTCs
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Apr 28, 2017
Why the delay for Learndirect inspection report?
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Apr 28, 2017
Team UK selected for WorldSkills 2017 in Abu Dhabi
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Apr 28, 2017
Levy launch ‘horror’ story predicted following apprenticeship funding allocations
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Apr 27, 2017
The non-levy procurement pause will be “a slaughter of providers”
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Apr 27, 2017
North London colleges' merger called off
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Apr 27, 2017
Former principals named on mayor’s Skills for Londoners taskforce
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Apr 27, 2017
Dear Robert, the apprenticeship allocation will cut our funding by over 80%
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Apr 27, 2017
Highly unusual decision taken to extend principal’s notice period to full year
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Apr 26, 2017
Emily Chapman elected as new NUS VP for FE
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Apr 26, 2017
FE champion Shakira Martin elected NUS president
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Apr 26, 2017
Non-levy funding allocations sent to providers following tender pause
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Apr 26, 2017
Technical and FE bill passes: what does it mean for the sector?
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Apr 25, 2017
Labour pledges to bring back education maintenance allowance
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Apr 25, 2017
Meet the candidates for new NUS vice president for FE
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Apr 25, 2017
Call for long-term AEB procurement pause after election delay
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Apr 25, 2017
A first step to loans justice for learners in the lurch
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Apr 24, 2017
Supported learners walk the catwalk to celebrate diversity in fashion
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Apr 24, 2017
DfE blasted for flip-flopping on GCSE maths and English resits
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Apr 24, 2017
Movers and Shakers: Edition 205
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Apr 24, 2017
Students paint five-foot hare statue to feature in the Cotswold Hare Trail
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Apr 23, 2017
The minimum wage has gone up; but are apprentices getting paid?
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Apr 22, 2017
National charity opens London's first-ever autism college
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Apr 22, 2017
Chief executive role for new IfA finally advertised
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Apr 21, 2017
Ofsted watch: A bumper crop of ‘good’ grades
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Apr 21, 2017
Expansion plans with Saudi Colleges of Excellence revealed
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Apr 21, 2017
RoATP provider now selling for tens of thousands
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Apr 21, 2017
Staff anger at cash-strapped college’s new carpark charge
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Apr 21, 2017
What secret grade did you get?
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Apr 21, 2017
ESFA was right to pause non-levy ITT process
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Apr 21, 2017
ESFA pause will destroy good specialist providers
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Apr 21, 2017
Institute for Apprenticeships announces route panel chairs and apprentice panel
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Apr 21, 2017
Government secretly grading all colleges and training providers
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Apr 20, 2017
Agency boss writes warning letter to all college principals
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Apr 20, 2017
Agency writes to apprenticeship providers with further details on non-levy pause
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Apr 20, 2017
Ones to watch at AoC Sport National Championships 2017
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Apr 20, 2017
Editor asks: Halfon answers three key questions after snap election announcement
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Apr 18, 2017
£1.6 billion bids for ‘markedly oversubscribed’ non-levy procurement
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Apr 18, 2017
Government add Birmingham college to register of apprenticeship providers
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Apr 13, 2017
Excitement builds ahead of AoC Sport National Championships 2017
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Apr 13, 2017
Government to 'formally intervene' at 35 providers with achievement rate failures
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Apr 13, 2017
Confusion and anger as hundreds of apprenticeship providers left disappointed
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Apr 12, 2017
Procurement paused for apprenticeships with smaller employers
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Apr 12, 2017
New Ofsted chair unveiled
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Apr 11, 2017
Outstanding Ofsted verdict for private apprenticeships provider
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Apr 11, 2017
AELP demands widespread changes to 20 per cent off-the-job apprenticeship training rule
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Apr 10, 2017
Decision to retain forced maths and English GCSE resits ‘extremely’ disappointing
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Apr 10, 2017
Ofsted watch: college snubbed from register rated 'outstanding' for apprenticeships
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Apr 7, 2017
Breaking: Ofsted launches official ‘good’ logo in policy U-turn
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Apr 6, 2017
Skills Commission demands cross-departmental minister for lifelong learning
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Apr 6, 2017
Sixth UTC hit with Ofsted inadequate grade
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Apr 5, 2017
HEFCE to regulate degree apprenticeships
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Apr 3, 2017
Apprentices to receive welcome card to be used with an off-the-job training calculator
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Apr 1, 2017
Ofsted watch: ‘Requires improvement’ for K College successor
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Mar 31, 2017
Influential group of MPs demand action over lack of apprenticeship assessment organisations
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Mar 31, 2017
Team UK selection for WorldSkills Abu Dhabi underway
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Mar 30, 2017
First inadequate Ofsted rating for loans-only provider
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Mar 30, 2017
Minister slams ‘financial crisis’ college’s oversight of doomed First4Skills
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Mar 30, 2017
The Skills Show 2017 dates announced
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Mar 30, 2017
Annual Apprenticeship Conference 2017
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Mar 30, 2017
Job advertised for new Education and Skills Funding Agency boss
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Mar 30, 2017
Lords amendment to extend child benefit entitlement for apprentices
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Mar 29, 2017
First major principal leadership programme unveiled since LSIS closure
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Mar 29, 2017
Government decides to retain Applied General qualifications
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Mar 28, 2017
DfE will scrap forced resits for GCSE English and maths
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Mar 28, 2017
SFA and EFA merger confirmed and Lauener retiring
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Mar 28, 2017
Ofqual should not have double standards
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Mar 27, 2017
Why is the NHS London Procurement Partnership charging fees to apprenticeship providers?
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Mar 27, 2017
Training provider receives top accolade for their investment in employees
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Mar 27, 2017
Whole FE sector backs #SaveOurAdultEducation campaign
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Mar 27, 2017
Movers and Shakers: Edition 204
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Mar 27, 2017
The chaos of apprenticeship reform
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Mar 27, 2017
LGBT campaigner Peter Tatchell tells students about his 50 years of activism
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Mar 26, 2017
Biohazard cleaning lecturer awarded medal for excellence for his quirky teaching methods
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Mar 26, 2017
Let's be more positive about ITPs
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Mar 26, 2017
Meet Lancashire's youngest English teachers
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Mar 25, 2017
Training providers spend thousands on consultants to get on new apprenticeship register
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Mar 25, 2017
The 20% off-the-job rule will make apprenticeships economically unviable
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Mar 25, 2017
Panel debates end-point assessment and RoATP
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Mar 24, 2017
Gordon Marsden lays out Labour’s FE policy objectives
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Mar 24, 2017
Editor Asks: Amanda Spielman, chief inspector, Ofsted
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Mar 24, 2017
No growth projections for Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers
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Mar 24, 2017
Apprenticeship providers warned not to sacrifice quality
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Mar 24, 2017
Ofqual boss: lack of end point assessment organisations is ‘not irresponsible’
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Mar 24, 2017
College on ‘lock down’ due to security threat
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Mar 24, 2017
Ofsted watch: Another UTC hit with poor grade
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Mar 24, 2017
MPs queue up to blast apprenticeships register omissions
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Mar 24, 2017
‘Mandatory training’ for untested apprenticeship providers on register
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Mar 24, 2017
NHS defends apprenticeship brokerage fees
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Mar 24, 2017
Broker fees are back again
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Mar 24, 2017
England alone with end-point assessment-only apprenticeships
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Mar 22, 2017
Delegates flood to Birmingham for FE Week’s Annual Apprenticeships Conference
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Mar 22, 2017
#SaveOurAdultEducation: Senior peer tries to protect future learners over loan debts
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Mar 21, 2017
Non-levy allocations no longer ruled out for unsuccessful colleges
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Mar 21, 2017
Making sense of the 20% off-the-job apprenticeship funding rule
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Mar 20, 2017
Minister wrongly claims there are no grade four providers on new apprenticeships register
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Mar 20, 2017
Unsuccessful applicants can reapply for apprenticeships register from tomorrow… but deadline is tight
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Mar 20, 2017
SFA apprenticeship funding rules strengthened to deter employer kick-backs
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Mar 20, 2017
Damning Ofsted report that caused downfall of huge provider published
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Mar 20, 2017
More than half of apprenticeship standards still have no assessor
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Mar 20, 2017
Finance director blamed in new FE commissioner report
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Mar 19, 2017
Sam Perrett: how we’re preparing for the work experience revolution
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Mar 19, 2017
Exclusive: new Ofsted chief 'worried' about apprenticeship register
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Mar 18, 2017
Autocar's car industry awards for women open up to apprentices
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Mar 18, 2017
Less than 50 per cent of inspected UTCs ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’
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Mar 18, 2017
No funded qualifications for over a third of approved standards
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Mar 18, 2017
Major provider chaired by ex-SFA boss calls in administrators
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Mar 17, 2017
Institute for Apprenticeships most popular for external quality assurance
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Mar 17, 2017
Struggling college has ‘agreed to release’ principal
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Mar 17, 2017
Ofsted watch: sixth form college plummets after 10-year inspection wait
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Mar 17, 2017
No Birmingham colleges make apprenticeships register
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Mar 17, 2017
I wouldn't 'trust' the new Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers
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Mar 17, 2017
Outrage at decision to widen admissions for small sixth form
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Mar 17, 2017
Sector in shock: Apprenticeship provider register winners and losers
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Mar 17, 2017
Ofsted boss commits to more ‘positive and purposeful’ approach to FE
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Mar 17, 2017
National College fails to make Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers
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Mar 16, 2017
Why is there no appeals process for the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers?
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Mar 16, 2017
Uncertain future for 900 learners as Chesterfield provider calls in administrators
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Mar 15, 2017
Company shuts down just days before SFA gives them green light for apprenticeship delivery
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Mar 15, 2017
Colleges delivering hundreds of apprenticeships ‘surprised’ to be left off new provider register
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Mar 15, 2017
SFA delays announcement of allocations for non-levy funding
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Mar 14, 2017
Halfon sets out priorities for 2017-18 in skills funding letter
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Mar 14, 2017
Full Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers finally published
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Mar 13, 2017
Jubilation for some as results come in for new Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers
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Mar 13, 2017
UTC joining college-backed multi academy trust after Ofsted blow
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Mar 13, 2017
Why I want other apprentices to enter skills competitions
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Mar 13, 2017
The UK needs to demonstrate global skills standards
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Mar 13, 2017
How Toyota uses skills competitions to develop its workforce
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Mar 13, 2017
Studio school to stop recruiting from 14 and become sixth form
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16-19
Mar 13, 2017
Movers and Shakers: Edition 202
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Mar 13, 2017
Are governors responsible for sub-contractors?
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ESOL
Mar 13, 2017
What happened during National Apprenticeship Week 2017?
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FE
National Apprenticeship Week
Mar 12, 2017
Formula 1 challenge pits apprentices against school pupils
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Mar 11, 2017
Government considers legislation change to protect learners with loans when providers go bust
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Mar 11, 2017
Ofsted watch: College bounces back from inadequate to good
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Mar 10, 2017
Will the Institute for Apprenticeships succeed?
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Mar 10, 2017
Apprenticeship frameworks could be discontinued without SFA approval
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Mar 10, 2017
It’s time to back T-levels
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Mar 10, 2017
More loans misery as provider goes under
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Mar 10, 2017
SFA blasted over ‘mystery shopper’ scheme
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Mar 10, 2017
Unison: First4Skills collapse ‘could have broken the law’
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Mar 10, 2017
National Apprenticeship Week is unlike any other week
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National Apprenticeship Week
NAW
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Mar 10, 2017
NAW Supplement 2017
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Mar 10, 2017
SFA unveils ‘mystery shopper’ scheme to test how ready providers are for apprenticeship reforms
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Mar 8, 2017
Budget 2017: Sector hails Hammond’s ‘breakthrough budget’ for skills
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Mar 8, 2017
Levy confusion: Final SFA apprenticeship allocation meeting cancelled
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Mar 8, 2017
Is it ethical to apply the apprenticeship levy to charities?
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Mar 8, 2017
Hold on – there’s a hitch in the £500m promise
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Mar 8, 2017
Enter more female apprentices for skills competitions – it’s worth it!
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Mar 8, 2017
National Apprenticeship Week 2017: More than 10,000 back world record attempt through giant careers advice assembly
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Mar 7, 2017
FE champion Shakira Martin standing for NUS president
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NUS
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Mar 7, 2017
Third largest awarding organisation pulls out of apprenticeship market
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OCR
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Mar 6, 2017
Making sense of the plans for T-Levels
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Mar 6, 2017
Movers and Shakers: Edition 201
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Colleges
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Leadership
Mar 6, 2017
The chancellor must back #SaveOurAdultEducation
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Mar 6, 2017
To increase social mobility, invest in adult education
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Mar 6, 2017
Cornwall educators get a lesson in STEM
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Mar 5, 2017
Apprenticeships: what are Ofsted inspectors looking for?
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Mar 5, 2017
Budget will give green light to FE maintenance loans, which is a step in the right direction
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Mar 4, 2017
Chancellor to announce 'over £500m' per year in extra funding for post-16 skills reform
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Mar 4, 2017
I'm delighted the Chancellor has faced up to skills challenges of Brexit
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Mar 4, 2017
Flock of chickens saved from avian flu by team of students
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Mar 4, 2017
College's foundation learners star in national safeguarding resource ... as puppets
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Mar 4, 2017
'Shocked' staff sent packing as huge apprenticeship training provider goes bust
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Mar 3, 2017
What’s on during National Apprenticeship Week 2017: Climbing the ladder of opportunity
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Mar 3, 2017
Early years educator apprenticeship requirement u-turn confirmed
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Mar 3, 2017
College governors brand SFA’s new apprenticeship contracts ‘ludicrous’
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Mar 3, 2017
Banned subcontracting hidden through widespread ‘associate partnerships’
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Mar 3, 2017
Shocking associate partnerships need to be tackled
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Mar 3, 2017
Fifteenth studio school set to close out of 36 nationwide
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Mar 2, 2017
Struggling college bailed out by SFA after bank refusal
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Mar 2, 2017
SFA already finding ineligible employer incentives and will ‘stengthen’ funding rules
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Mar 2, 2017
Government is making dangerous errors on apprenticeship assessment
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Mar 1, 2017
Film industry education boss lands ‘hand grenade’ assessment job at Institute for Apprenticeships
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Mar 1, 2017
Hull College Group chief executive departs after financial mess exposed
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Mar 1, 2017
First sixth form college converts to academy status today
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Mar 1, 2017
#SaveOurAdultEducation call for loans justice is raised in House of Lords
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Feb 28, 2017
Ofqual challenges ‘blurred’ responsibilities in apprenticeship programme
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Feb 28, 2017
Parliamentary launch for FE Week’s Save Our Adult Education campaign draws huge support
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Feb 27, 2017
Former ‘outstanding’ college’s Oftsed rating slumps after first inspection for decade
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Feb 27, 2017
Another 100 students left with FE loans and no courses after demise of provider Edudo
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Feb 27, 2017
Manchester merger scrapped by FE Commissioner
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Feb 27, 2017
School funding ‘done rather well’ and it’s cuts to 16-18 that’s the ‘bigger story’ claims Institute for Fiscal Studies
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Feb 27, 2017
Ethnic minority target for apprenticeship diversity group
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Feb 26, 2017
Patisserie student secures job at The Ritz after a week's work experience
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Feb 25, 2017
Early years educators shaken by sudden trailblazer shutdown
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Feb 25, 2017
Ideal Home Show hires student designers for the first time in its history
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Feb 25, 2017
Colleges welcome new apprenticeship subcontracting rules
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Feb 24, 2017
FE Week launches #SaveOurAdultEducation campaign
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Feb 24, 2017
Leaked briefing document reveals £170 million Institutes of Technology could be with ‘wholly new’ institutions
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Feb 24, 2017
Ofsted watch: FE college overcomes 'inadequate' period
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Feb 24, 2017
Rule change could price assessors out of running apprenticeship exams
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Feb 24, 2017
Wave four area review reports and recommendations published
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Feb 24, 2017
Wave four area review London reports and recommendations published
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Feb 24, 2017
Lord Baker scored a victory for FE
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Feb 24, 2017
Principal racked up £60k bill on overseas trips
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Feb 24, 2017
Ofsted could re-inspect after QAR loophole crackdown
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Feb 24, 2017
Changes to justice system will affect those working in FE colleges
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Feb 23, 2017
Baker victory will force ‘hostile’ schools to give FE providers access to students
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Feb 23, 2017
‘Baker clause’ will force hostile schools to open doors to FE
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Feb 23, 2017
Government tight-lipped over second allocation window for register of apprenticeship training providers
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Feb 22, 2017
New jobs dashboard allows providers to explore local employment and skills needs
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Feb 22, 2017
Consultation questions future of construction industry training boards after apprenticeship levy launch
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Feb 21, 2017
Halfon launches new Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network
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Feb 21, 2017
Comedy star returns to college to impart wisdom to aspiring media students
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Feb 20, 2017
How does Ofsted know whether work experience is high quality?
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Feb 20, 2017
Movers and Shakers: Edition 199
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Feb 20, 2017
Employers blasted for ignoring apprenticeships they developed
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Feb 19, 2017
SFA apprenticeship contract creates risks for employers
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Feb 19, 2017
National Star College students print 3D map to help blind friend navigate college
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Feb 18, 2017
Ofsted watch: week of two halves for FE providers
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Feb 17, 2017
Government wants £140k-a-year director to oversee area reviews
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Feb 17, 2017
Learners plead with government to end loan misery after provider collapse
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Feb 17, 2017
Employers in three sectors to grade their own apprentices
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Feb 17, 2017
End adult learner debt for cancelled courses
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Feb 17, 2017
SFA close achievement rate “loophole” that boosted some provider rates by more than 20 percent
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Feb 16, 2017
‘Good’ Ofsted report finally unveiled for recently incorporated FE college, after 90-day wait
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Feb 16, 2017
Apprenticeship achievement rate falls to 67 per cent under new method
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Feb 16, 2017
Lincoln College Group defends ‘isolated error’ after being named in minimum wage offenders' list
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Feb 15, 2017
Colleges stand by multi-million pound subcontractor despite insolvency issues
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Feb 14, 2017
Hull College Group silent on future of under fire chief executive
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Feb 14, 2017
We need a proper framework for apprenticeships
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Feb 14, 2017
Learndirect tops list of European Social Fund contracts with provision worth almost £50 million
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Feb 13, 2017
Minister backs early years educator u-turn as sector made to wait by PM’s office
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Feb 13, 2017
Online apprenticeship service registration opens
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Feb 13, 2017
New legal apprenticeships contract between SFA and employers unveiled
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Feb 13, 2017
Third of employers paying levy in April don't know it exists yet, according to new report
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Feb 13, 2017
FE Commissioner intervention report exposes financial turmoil at Hull College Group
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Feb 10, 2017
Ofsted watch: No overall-improvement recognised in tough week for FE
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Feb 10, 2017
Gove admits the UTCs experiment has failed
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Feb 10, 2017
Digital Apprenticeship Service to be renamed prior to launch
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Feb 10, 2017
Grimsby Institute wins top AoC Beacon award
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Feb 8, 2017
IfA to charge assessment organisations for quality assurance
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Feb 7, 2017
Greater Manchester UTC is seventh to announce closure
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Feb 7, 2017
Essex County Council learning branded ‘inadequate’
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Feb 7, 2017
Our new college principal is alienating staff. What should we do?
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Feb 7, 2017
Colleges rely on A&E to help students with serious mental health issues
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Feb 7, 2017
It's time for a national adult learning strategy
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Feb 6, 2017
How we reversed our college's deficit budget
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Feb 5, 2017
DfE silent on FE commissioner intervention reports
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Feb 4, 2017
How will the NHS spend its apprenticeship levy?
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Feb 4, 2017
Ofsted watch: Outstanding rating highlight of positive week for FE
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Feb 3, 2017
Leave ESOL to the experts
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Feb 3, 2017
Education leaders call for co-ordinated national ESOL strategy
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Feb 3, 2017
Ofsted denies going soft on employers despite IfA notes
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Feb 3, 2017
FE Week victory: apprenticeship rules ban brokerage
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Feb 3, 2017
Carlisle College becomes NCG fifth FE college member
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Feb 3, 2017
Carlisle College becomes NCG fifth FE college member
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Feb 3, 2017
Epping Forest College hires finance director despite £338k IT scandal
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Feb 3, 2017
Government pushes for more over-60s apprentices
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Feb 2, 2017
AoC: Membership fees overhaul consultation to avoid £1 million overspend
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Feb 1, 2017
First ever procurement process for adult education budget contracts finally launched
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Jan 31, 2017
Ofsted rates Birkenhead Sixth Form College as outstanding in all areas
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Jan 31, 2017
IFS calls for minimum public sector workforce apprenticeship target to be scrapped
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Jan 31, 2017
Institute for Apprenticeships silent on learning difficulties and disabilities
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Jan 30, 2017
Apprenticeship funding rule requiring 20 per cent off-the-job training ‘not going away’
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Jan 30, 2017
Halfon: Careers advice at colleges ‘state of the art’ but schools not good enough
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Jan 30, 2017
Parent anger over Daventry UTC closure
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Jan 30, 2017
Training provision must adapt to demand
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Jan 30, 2017
Indie pop band Blossoms perform secret gig for Salford students
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Jan 29, 2017
Institutes of technology £170m windfall going to existing providers
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Jan 29, 2017
Fine art students create artwork to trigger happy memories in dementia sufferers
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Jan 29, 2017
Technical Education Panels: Why pay for advice that is already free?
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Jan 29, 2017
Apprenticeship standards: why pay for advice that is already free?
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Jan 29, 2017
North Shropshire College runs integration classes for refugees
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Jan 28, 2017
'Inadequate' Gateway SFC pulls back from Leicestershire area review
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Jan 28, 2017
Lecturers tie Alan Titchmarsh to a tree for Channel 4 programme
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Jan 28, 2017
Ofsted watch: West Cheshire College no longer ‘inadequate’
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Jan 27, 2017
Halfon puts lifelong learning back in the spotlight
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Jan 27, 2017
Report shows college struggle with ‘endemic’ sexualised behaviour
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Jan 27, 2017
Large drop in number of standards lacking end-point assessors
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Jan 27, 2017
SFA in dock after hundreds of learners struggle to recover loans cash when provider collapses
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Jan 27, 2017
The Institute for Apprenticeships board lacks balance
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Jan 27, 2017
Introducing the Institute for Apprenticeships board members
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Jan 27, 2017
Cable delighted with industrial strategy commitment to adult education
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Jan 26, 2017
Institute for Apprenticeships appoints first director
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Jan 26, 2017
Apprenticeship starts rise despite fall in vacancies
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Jan 26, 2017
SFA forced to delay publication of 2015/16 achievement rates as “technical issues” ongoing
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Jan 25, 2017
Industrial strategy? FE needs proper funding
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Jan 25, 2017
It's time we talked about lifetime learning
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Jan 24, 2017
National Apprenticeship Awards 2016: Meet the winners
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Jan 23, 2017
Institutes of Technology are the right idea; now we must make sure they deliver
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Jan 23, 2017
Industrial strategy green paper explains plan for Institutes of Technology ‘in all areas’
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Jan 23, 2017
Digital Apprenticeship Service will go live in February
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Jan 23, 2017
Ofsted reports require improvement
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Jan 23, 2017
Movers and Shakers: Edition 196
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Jan 23, 2017
Fizzy drink created by students set to hit local shelves
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Jan 22, 2017
Industrial Strategy will put FE in spotlight with £170m to create Institutes of Technology
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Jan 22, 2017
College forced to stop recruiting apprentices
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Jan 21, 2017
Priestley Sixth Form College leading race to academise
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Jan 21, 2017
Young developers create chart-topping PC adventure game
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Jan 21, 2017
Winners from the National Apprenticeship Awards 2016 announced
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Jan 21, 2017
Are career colleges working two and a half years on?
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Jan 20, 2017
Minister Halfon pays a visit to London's first ever career college
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Jan 20, 2017
Minister Halfon pays a visit to London’s first ever career college
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Jan 20, 2017
Ofsted watch: Two grade crash to inadequate for independent training providers
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Jan 20, 2017
Concerns over Institute for Apprenticeships readiness justified
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Jan 20, 2017
Ofqual to discuss conflict-of-interest concerns with NSAFD organisation
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Jan 20, 2017
‘Shambles’ IfA on course to launch with temporary leadership
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Jan 20, 2017
The Institute for Apprenticeships is a shambles
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Jan 20, 2017
All eyes on tonight’s National Apprenticeships Awards
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Jan 20, 2017
It’s official: public sector apprenticeships target set at 2.3 per cent
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Jan 20, 2017
AoC defends colleges after new DfE statistics show lack of English and maths progress
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Jan 19, 2017
Over 60 MPS call on minister to commit to adult education resurgence
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Jan 19, 2017
Lord Nash: Fifth of sixth form colleges have begun official negotiations for acadamy status
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Jan 18, 2017
IfA director role like ‘hand grenade with pin removed’, AELP warns
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Jan 18, 2017
DfE advertises for over 100 paid advisors to help with Sainsbury reforms
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Jan 17, 2017
Plumbing lecturer saves Moldovan primary pupils from sub-zero temperatures
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Jan 16, 2017
How we challenged an Ofsted report and won
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Jan 16, 2017
Two students have been named the nation's top paperhangers
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Jan 15, 2017
FE wasn't overlooked in the new year honours list
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Jan 15, 2017
Horticulture students plant 33,000 tulips in historic gardens
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Jan 14, 2017
Unison: New labour market tsar must protect underpaid apprentices
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Jan 14, 2017
Wave three of area reviews produces four merger proposals
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Jan 14, 2017
Visual impairment college opens eyes to specialist education in BBC documentary
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Jan 14, 2017
Ofsted watch: Poor start to the year for FE colleges
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Jan 13, 2017
Halfon denies picture ‘bleak’ for adult education in ‘night school’ debate
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Jan 13, 2017
Ofsted should be congratulated for admitting its mistake
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Jan 13, 2017
Government unwilling to take action on qualifications fraud fears
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Jan 13, 2017
Ofsted makes multiple changes to report after complaints
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Jan 12, 2017
Lammy: Bring back night schools to save adult education
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Jan 12, 2017
Providers in limbo as ‘no date’ for adult education budget procurement launch
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Jan 11, 2017
Late publication of ‘customer service’ guide for area reviews described as ‘beyond parody’
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Jan 10, 2017
PM’s mental health first aid training pledge only for schools, not colleges
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Jan 10, 2017
Wave three area review reports and recommendations published
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Jan 10, 2017
Are college governors personally liable if something goes wrong?
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Jan 10, 2017
Investigation launched after former SFA senior manager embroiled in alleged Israeli plot
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Jan 9, 2017
Qualifications achievement rates dashboard still unavailable after days of problems
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Jan 9, 2017
Skills Funding Agency to remain in charge of assessment organisation register
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Jan 9, 2017
Virtual technology suite will aid apprenticeship learning
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Jan 9, 2017
Apprentice targets should cross administrative boundaries
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Jan 9, 2017
Public services students become first in the country to undertake prison work experience
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Jan 8, 2017
Carole Stott: FE holds the key to 2017's global skills challenges
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Jan 8, 2017
Blackpool college uses animal organs to up STEM intake
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Jan 7, 2017
DfE writes off another £3m from undersubscribed UTCs
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Jan 7, 2017
Wellbeing applies to staff as well as students
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Jan 7, 2017
‘Large-scale incident’ exposes college safeguarding failures in inadequate Ofsted report
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Jan 6, 2017
If DfE is listening it must act now
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Jan 6, 2017
Gazelle Group on its last legs after its director and most members quit
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Jan 6, 2017
Outstanding colleges might now expect a visit from Ofsted
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Jan 6, 2017
Funding reform will see 16-18 apprenticeships ‘drop by two thirds’
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Jan 5, 2017
Navigating 2017
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Jan 5, 2017
16-18 apprenticeships are set to plummet
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Jan 5, 2017
Thousands competing in AoC Sport National Championships 2017
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Jan 5, 2017
Sign Language qualifications accepted as English functional skills alternative for apprenticeships
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Jan 5, 2017
Institute for Apprenticeships consultation launched
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Jan 4, 2017
My plans, priorities and resolutions for 2017
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Jan 4, 2017
FE principals neglected again as New Year's honours list praises only a handful
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Dec 31, 2016
FE figures honoured by the Queen in her 2017 list
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Dec 30, 2016
Scotland to spend less than half their levy funding on apprenticeships
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Dec 23, 2016
Marsden ‘very disappointed’ as assurances on IfA announcements fail to deliver
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Dec 22, 2016
EFA announces no change to 16-18 funding rates
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Dec 21, 2016
Ofsted criticises ‘financial mismanagement’ at college preparing to join with university
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Dec 19, 2016
Failed UTC site used as cheap accommodation for young professionals
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Dec 18, 2016
Public Accounts Committee warning over 'high risk' devolution plans
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Dec 18, 2016
Find out which organisations can assess the most apprenticeship standards
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Dec 15, 2016
New plans for police constable apprenticeships unveiled
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Dec 15, 2016
Still no assessment organisations approved for over half apprenticeships
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Dec 15, 2016
Governors back first sixth form college merger with multi-academy trust
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Dec 15, 2016
Minimal impact of schools careers advice on progression to FE exposed
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Dec 14, 2016
Mass delays to publication of special needs learner plans spark calls for government intervention
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Dec 14, 2016
How big should the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education be?
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Dec 13, 2016
MPs investigating how colleges can better support students over mental health issues
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Dec 12, 2016
Exceptional students and staff honoured in Celebration of Success
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Dec 12, 2016
Race to the bottom: who's checking delivery quality of apprenticeship standards?
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Dec 12, 2016
Movers & Shakers: Edition 193
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Dec 12, 2016
Special needs college first in the UK to receive Princess Royal Training Award
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Dec 11, 2016
Apprentices get IfA representation – but no place on the board
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Dec 11, 2016
‘Deep concern’ over local enterprise partnerships’ funding decisions
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Dec 11, 2016
Sir David Collins earned £0.5m in three years as FE commissioner
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Dec 10, 2016
Sixth form campaign to reach Christmas number one snowballs
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Dec 10, 2016
Week left to register for Brathay apprenticeship challenge
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Dec 9, 2016
Revealed at last: Government sets aside £726m for area review restructuring
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Dec 9, 2016
Chartered Institution for Further Education appoints new chief executive
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Dec 9, 2016
Funding axe for provider following FE Week investigation
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Dec 9, 2016
English language classes funding is not a luxury
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Dec 9, 2016
‘Incredibly unfair’ funding quirk riles colleges
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Dec 9, 2016
Daventry UTC announces it is to close next year
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Dec 7, 2016
SFA criticised for ‘total farce’ over key provider submission failures
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Dec 7, 2016
Ofsted wants key degree apprenticeship inspection role
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Dec 6, 2016
Reports of discrimination at SFA double in a year
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Dec 6, 2016
SFA extends data return deadline as Hub crashes
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Dec 6, 2016
EFA funding falls by over 20% for three colleges
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Dec 5, 2016
Casey Review: Influential report warns more funding needed for community-based English language classes
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Dec 5, 2016
Let's keep pushing to make TFE bill better
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Dec 5, 2016
EuroSkills 2016: Celebrating Team UK's success - souvenir supplement
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Dec 5, 2016
Team UK’s golden success at EuroSkills closing ceremony
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Dec 4, 2016
Meet Team UK competitors ahead of EuroSkills medal ceremony
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Dec 4, 2016
College bat faces eviction when demolition work begins
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Dec 4, 2016
SFA steps up campaign against top-slicing management fees
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Dec 4, 2016
EuroSkills day 3: Team UK's Betsy breaks through the engineering glass ceiling
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Dec 3, 2016
Dan wins gold for Team UK at EuroSkills in Gothenburg
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Dec 3, 2016
DfE takes back £3m from colleges failing in English and maths
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Dec 3, 2016
Apprenticeships not cheap labour
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Dec 3, 2016
EuroSkills day 2: Intricate design could bag Danielle floristry gold
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Dec 2, 2016
Disappointment over further delay to FE maintenance loans decision
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Dec 2, 2016
Careers company coverage a postcode lottery?
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Dec 2, 2016
Wilshaw couldn't resist final swipe at colleges
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Dec 2, 2016
UTCs fare best in report on work-related learning failings
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Dec 2, 2016
Wilshaw contradicts own report with ‘personal’ English and maths attack
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Dec 2, 2016
Delayed area reviews outcomes bring limited change
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Dec 2, 2016
EuroSkills day 1: Knight is a cut above the rest
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Dec 1, 2016
Ofsted annual report says GCSE English and maths resit policy is failing
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Dec 1, 2016
'You are the role models of the future’ competitors are told as EuroSkills 2016 opens
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Nov 30, 2016
New nursing degree apprenticeship announced by Jeremy Hunt
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Nov 30, 2016
Public Accounts Committee wants broader success measures for apprenticeships
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Nov 30, 2016
EuroSkills: The journey to Gothenburg
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Nov 29, 2016
Area review reports and recommendations finally published
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Nov 29, 2016
SFA apprenticeship tender for small employers rejected by quarter of providers
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Nov 28, 2016
Learndirect top-slices almost £20 million through subcontractors deals
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Nov 28, 2016
Skills minister bids farewell to Team UK with heartfelt speech
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Nov 28, 2016
UTC Cambridge hit by Ofsted grade four rating
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Nov 28, 2016
Ron Dearing UTC expands a year before opening
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Nov 28, 2016
Lewisham Southwark College still wants Newcastle merger despite local offers
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Nov 28, 2016
Student crowned ‘all-round inspiration’ at awards for extensive volunteering work
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Nov 28, 2016
For Prevent to succeed, we can't ignore religion
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Nov 27, 2016
Arrival of baby corn snakes make history at Hartpury college
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Nov 26, 2016
Half the levy will be paid by just 400 employers – but who are they?
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Nov 26, 2016
Nescot appoints principal but controversial former head Sunaina Mann stays at Saudi subsidiary
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Nov 26, 2016
Technical education is our best chance to achieve social mobility
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Nov 25, 2016
Scammers target colleges during AoC conference
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Nov 25, 2016
Scotland and Wales dominate Skills Show 2016 medal table
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Nov 25, 2016
Apprenticeship funding brokerage ban is a victory for students
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Nov 25, 2016
Providers found ignoring apprenticeship register application guidance just hours from critical deadline
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Nov 25, 2016
Jaguar apprentices rescued after provider collapses
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Nov 25, 2016
FE commissioner’s plea to rescue Hereward College
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Nov 25, 2016
Collab Group: Ofsted isn’t the only marker of success
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Nov 25, 2016
Brokerage of apprenticeship funding to be banned next year
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Nov 25, 2016
The Skills Show Supplement 2016
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Nov 25, 2016
AoC Annual Conference 2016
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Nov 25, 2016
Stockport College plunges back to grade four Ofsted
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Nov 24, 2016
Autumn statement: £200m levy pot reduction forecast by Treasury
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Nov 23, 2016
Autumn statement: Government to devolve adult education budget to London
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Nov 23, 2016
Autumn statement: Hammond approves 10p apprentice minimum wage rise
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Nov 23, 2016
Pearson’s Ofsted rating up two grades to ‘good’
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Nov 23, 2016
Future ‘remains uncertain’ for Central Sussex College, Ofsted warns
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Nov 22, 2016
Lauener reveals staffing levels for new Institute for Apprenticeships
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Nov 22, 2016
College slumps to ‘inadequate’ Ofsted after coming bottom in FE Week league table
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Nov 21, 2016
Should colleges require level 4s or 5s of the new GCSEs for A Level entry?
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Nov 20, 2016
Scotland and Wales win big at Skills Show 2016 competition finals
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Nov 19, 2016
Skills Show Results 2016 by competition
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Nov 19, 2016
Skills Show Results 2016 - organisation league table
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Nov 19, 2016
FE Week's annual charity auction raises a whopping £14,000
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Nov 19, 2016
Editor Asks: David Hughes in conversation (part 2)
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Nov 19, 2016
National schools commissioner addresses college leaders
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Nov 19, 2016
Guess the FE cartoons!
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Nov 18, 2016
Richard Atkins: The FE sector ‘is doing pretty well’
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Nov 18, 2016
Government adviser criticises full-time vocational courses
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Nov 18, 2016
President to make 2017 the year FE colleges tackle mental health
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Nov 18, 2016
Ministers need to fund technical education, says Lord Sainsbury
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Nov 18, 2016
Lord Sainsbury criticised over ‘retail assistant’ comments
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Nov 18, 2016
Colleges go a decade without full inspection
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Nov 18, 2016
How does the directory of apprenticeship training providers work?
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Nov 18, 2016
Exeter College is the best college in the country, according to FE Week’s new league table
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Nov 17, 2016
Skills Show is the 'future' of Britain, Halfon says
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Nov 17, 2016
Strong indication of English and maths post-16 requirement change
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Nov 17, 2016
Time to celebrate many achievements of colleges, Halfon tells conference
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Nov 17, 2016
Greening appeals for reforms support from across ‘technical education family’
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Nov 17, 2016
Funding threshold will be extended, EFA director announces
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Nov 16, 2016
Social Mobility Commission calls for school sixth form extension
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Nov 16, 2016
Colleges are heading towards a ‘crisis point’ in student mental health, AoC president warns
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Nov 16, 2016
Lord Sainsbury demands more cash for technical education
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Nov 15, 2016
Colleges can thrive despite ‘blizzard of changes’, AoC boss tells delegates
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Nov 15, 2016
Fourth FE institute awarded chartered status
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Nov 15, 2016
War of words continues as AoC boss accused of putting ‘institutional self-interest before learners’ interest’
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Nov 14, 2016
Live with Linford at AoC Conference 2016
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Nov 14, 2016
College's careers advice service opens city centre 'Job Zone'
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Nov 14, 2016
Technical and Further Education Bill second reading in Commons
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Nov 14, 2016
Reverse decline in higher level technical qualifications, demands Professor Wolf
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Nov 14, 2016
Movers & Shakers: Edition 189
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Nov 13, 2016
Prison learning needs more staff to succeed
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Nov 13, 2016
Area reviews have lost their true purpose
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Nov 12, 2016
College attended by band Viola Beach launches scholarship in their memory
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Nov 12, 2016
Minister on a monthly mission
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Nov 11, 2016
David Hughes: let’s present a confident and ambitious AoC regions front for colleges
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Nov 11, 2016
It's all about apprenticeships: what are colleges waiting for?
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Nov 11, 2016
Employers pass their judgement in satisfaction ratings
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Nov 11, 2016
New destination data for unemployed learners
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Nov 11, 2016
AoC and AELP bosses battle over independent provider quality
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Nov 11, 2016
Government meddling blamed for 2 year apprenticeship delays
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Nov 11, 2016
Move away from 3m apprenticeship target to avoid ‘wasting £500 million’ says influential think tank
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Nov 11, 2016
Drop the 3m apprenticeship target to avoid ‘wasting £500 million’ says influential think tank
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Nov 11, 2016
How to fix the skills system
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Nov 11, 2016
College sector ignoring minister’s cash warning as private providers clean up
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Nov 11, 2016
Influential think tank calls for college-only route to replace the level 2 apprenticeship
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Nov 10, 2016
Don’t abolish 16-18 apprenticeships!
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Nov 10, 2016
Education secretary commits to focusing ‘much more’ on FE
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Nov 8, 2016
Carmichael backs more FE investment as he rejects new grammars
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Nov 8, 2016
Unique mindfulness course is a hit with college students
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Nov 8, 2016
Outstanding Ofsted for Fashion Retail Academy
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Nov 7, 2016
Students get involved with international eco-hairdressing project
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Nov 7, 2016
Ofqual opens malpractice investigation following apprentice complaint
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Nov 7, 2016
New south London free school ruffles local feathers
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Nov 7, 2016
Movers & Shakers: Edition 188
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Nov 6, 2016
How to create inclusive learning spaces
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Nov 6, 2016
College student's business venture is fighting fit
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Nov 5, 2016
The government must go much further with reforms
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Nov 5, 2016
Consultation sparks hope for early years educator apprenticeships u-turn
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Nov 5, 2016
Prisoners to work towards apprenticeships
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Nov 4, 2016
Kensington and Chelsea College principal resigns with immediate effect
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Nov 4, 2016
Big win over small schools
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Nov 4, 2016
Lead DfE civil servant debunks Skills Plan ‘myth’
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Nov 4, 2016
Race on to approve assessors in time for apprentices finishing in March
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Nov 4, 2016
Editor Asks part two: Apprenticeships minister Robert Halfon on employer ownership, assessment organisations and subcontracting
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Nov 4, 2016
Small school scandal deepens as academy trust found running sixth form with less than 20 pupils
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Nov 4, 2016
Area Reviews: rebuild for resilience
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Nov 3, 2016
Student focus for Sir Vince Cable's FE comeback
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Nov 2, 2016
Minister 'pretty sure' assessments will be in place by the time apprentices finish
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Nov 2, 2016
Fruity reception expected for Halfon's apples and pears
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Nov 1, 2016
Peter Lauener at odds with sector over lack of end-point assessors
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Nov 1, 2016
Making apprenticeships work for young people will take more than fixing the funding formula
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Nov 1, 2016
Minister accused of ‘hoodwinking the house’ over apprenticeship cuts
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Nov 1, 2016
AoC reaches out-of-court settlement with DfE over sixth form judicial review
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Nov 1, 2016
Bring standards and EPA development under control
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Nov 1, 2016
Cost of Digital Apprenticeship Service revealed
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Oct 31, 2016
Special Westminster debate on apprenticeship cuts tomorrow
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Oct 31, 2016
Bill Watkin: CEO, Sixth Form Colleges' Association
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Oct 31, 2016
Movers & Shakers: Edition 187
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Oct 31, 2016
Why isn't the sector more positive about apprenticeship reforms?
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Oct 30, 2016
GCSE English and maths retakes are a policy car crash
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Oct 30, 2016
Insufficient progress for inadequate college
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Oct 28, 2016
DfE bailing out colleges
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Oct 28, 2016
Jaguar Land Rover red-faced by 'poor' Ofsted rating
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Oct 28, 2016
Rise in SFA contracts for small providers
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Oct 28, 2016
Heading in the right direction
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Oct 28, 2016
Apprenticeship funding ‘u-turn’ - but how far does it really go?
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Oct 27, 2016
You’re fired! Lord Sugar could cut ties with DfE over apprentice champion role
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Oct 27, 2016
Insolvency regime plans in new Technical and Further Education Bill
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Oct 27, 2016
Court date set for AoC judicial review over new sixth form
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Oct 27, 2016
Two thirds of sixth form colleges forced to drop courses
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Oct 27, 2016
FE Commissioner backs widening of area reviews
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Oct 26, 2016
Still pushing for apprenticeship reforms clarity
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Oct 26, 2016
Subcontracting saved in final apprenticeship plans
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Oct 25, 2016
Four changes in the apprenticeship announcements you need to know
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Oct 25, 2016
Campaign victory over apprenticeship funding
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Oct 25, 2016
Final levels of apprenticeship funding revealed
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Oct 25, 2016
First evidence session grilling for Halfon on apprenticeships
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Oct 24, 2016
FE commissioner to face questions on area reviews
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Oct 21, 2016
Strike cancelled after college gives compulsory redundancy assurance
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Oct 21, 2016
City of Liverpool College placed in administered status by ‘extremely concerned’ minister
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Oct 21, 2016
National programme launched to boost apprenticeship end-point assessment
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Oct 21, 2016
College asset stripping fears eased by area review guidance
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Oct 20, 2016
Federation of Awarding Bodies appoints new chair and vice chair
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Oct 20, 2016
Ofqual boss urged to ‘fight’ for apprenticeship assessment watchdog role
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Oct 20, 2016
AoC India to close after 25 colleges quit
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Oct 20, 2016
Devolve FE funding to tackle post-Brexit skills gap, London mayor demands
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Oct 20, 2016
Four new FE Commissioner reports published by DfE
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Oct 20, 2016
Parliamentary debate approved on ‘totally unacceptable’ apprenticeship cuts
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Oct 20, 2016
SFA approve just 13% of apprentice assessment organisation applications
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Oct 19, 2016
Long-awaited area review guidance finally published
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Oct 19, 2016
Halfon calls UTCs 'incredible' despite one in 10 already shut
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Oct 19, 2016
London mayor Sadiq Khan calls for government rethink on apprenticeship funding rates
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Oct 19, 2016
Three-way merger becomes two-way after college pulls out
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Oct 18, 2016
DfE confirms Richard Atkins CBE as new FE Commissioner
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Oct 17, 2016
Sussex college merger plans unveiled
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Oct 17, 2016
Record number of females sign up for Hartpury College's land-based courses
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Oct 17, 2016
Let's make end-point assessment part of the solution, not the problem
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Oct 17, 2016
DfE confirms Richard Atkins CBE as new FE Commissioner
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Oct 17, 2016
How colleges can keep up with apprenticeship reforms
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Oct 16, 2016
Movers & Shakers: Edition 186
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Oct 15, 2016
Council u-turn on outsourcing adult education
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Oct 15, 2016
All private training providers told current adult education contract will terminate next July
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Oct 14, 2016
Apprenticeship standards without assessment organisations should not be approved for delivery
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Oct 14, 2016
Hull College strike postponed following ‘positive talks’
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Oct 14, 2016
Employers more satisfied with private training providers than colleges
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Oct 14, 2016
Lack of assessment organisations ‘disrespectful’ to apprentices
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Oct 14, 2016
Management apprenticeships – solving the productivity puzzle
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Oct 14, 2016
MPs given clearest public indication yet of u-turn on apprenticeship funding cuts
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Oct 12, 2016
No approved assessment organisation for over half of new apprenticeships
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Oct 12, 2016
No approved assessment organisation for over half of new apprenticeships
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Oct 12, 2016
Government set for u-turn on apprenticeships funding cuts
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Oct 11, 2016
Commons debate request over funding cuts exposed by FE Week
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Oct 11, 2016
EU students will be eligible for English FE loans in 2016/17
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Oct 11, 2016
Derby College’s new course in hedgehog care
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Oct 10, 2016
Apprenticeship funding cuts exposed by FE Week raised in education questions
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Oct 10, 2016
FE Week campaign against apprenticeship funding cuts raised in Commons
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Oct 10, 2016
Youth prison becomes first in the world to become dyslexia-friendly
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Oct 10, 2016
FE Week campaign against apprenticeship funding cuts raised in Commons
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Oct 10, 2016
Let’s take full advantage of what devolution can offer
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Oct 10, 2016
How will the new apprenticeship standards be quality assured?
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Oct 10, 2016
What FE can expect from the autumn statement
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Oct 9, 2016
The unstoppable rise of management apprenticeships
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Oct 9, 2016
Council forces students with special needs to pay over £600 in travel costs
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Oct 8, 2016
Which Party conference was more focused on apprenticeships and skills?
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Oct 8, 2016
Search begins for chair of the Institute for Apprenticeships
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Oct 7, 2016
Fairness fears over college apprenticeship groups
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Oct 7, 2016
Conservatives talk big on skills agenda ahead of Budget
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Oct 7, 2016
Ministerial bypass sparks ‘woeful’ area review row
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Oct 7, 2016
Fresh concerns over failing UTC model as one in 10 now shut
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Oct 7, 2016
Fresh concerns over failing UTC model as a fifth closes in London
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Oct 7, 2016
Greening tells conference Skills Plan will be big focus
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Oct 5, 2016
Greening tells conference Skills Plan will be a big focus
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Oct 5, 2016
Strike will hit Hull College next Thursday
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Oct 5, 2016
Apprentices discouraged by schools demand better careers advice
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Oct 4, 2016
Apprentices discouraged by schools demand better careers advice
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Oct 4, 2016
Not rabbit, rabbiting over apprenticeships
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Oct 3, 2016
Movers & Shakers: Edition 184
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Oct 2, 2016
Computer skills to be fully funded through existing Adult Education Budget
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Oct 1, 2016
Council wants small-school sixth forms to merge or close
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Oct 1, 2016
Ofsted considering climbdown over logo use
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Oct 1, 2016
Financial notice to improve for Heathrow Aviation Engineering University Technical College
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Sep 30, 2016
How can colleges best support students with their mental health?
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Sep 30, 2016
Ofsted picks Damar to train its apprentices
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Sep 30, 2016
Apprenticeship funding reforms: May 1, 2017 contingency coming?
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Sep 30, 2016
Funding reform roll-out in 2017 still on track, insists DfE
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Sep 30, 2016
TV’s Reggie Yates announced as AoC conference speaker
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Sep 30, 2016
Concerns raised over Lauener’s new IfA post
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Sep 30, 2016
Mr Halfon, please correct the record
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Sep 30, 2016
MP renews spat with Hull College over planned job cuts
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Sep 30, 2016
Bosses ‘switch’ firms leaving huge student and company debt
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Sep 30, 2016
AoC calls for delay to apprenticeship funding reforms for first time
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Sep 29, 2016
AoC calls for delay to apprenticeship funding reforms for first time
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Sep 29, 2016
SFA pauses loans process after FE Week exposes delays
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Sep 28, 2016
Further delays to controversial provider register
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Sep 28, 2016
Lord Baker rejects post-16 academic and vocational divide
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Sep 28, 2016
Rayner backs ‘important’ appenticeships campaign at Labour conference
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Sep 27, 2016
Principal of inadequate college resigns despite ‘full backing’ from governors
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Sep 27, 2016
It’s a CEO hat-trick for Peter Lauener, as Institute for Apprenticeships added to EFA and SFA
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Sep 26, 2016
It’s a CEO hat-trick for Peter Lauener, as Institute for Apprenticeships added to EFA and SFA
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Sep 26, 2016
Movers and Shakers: Edition 183
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Sep 26, 2016
Government guidance delayed… but area reviews plough ahead
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Sep 25, 2016
How many contracts does it take to make an apprenticeship?
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Sep 25, 2016
Government guidance delayed… but area reviews plough ahead
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Sep 25, 2016
#SaveOurApprenticeships rally planned for Labour Party conference
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Sep 24, 2016
Why champion apprenticeships? There are so many other options
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Sep 24, 2016
#SaveOurApprenticeships rally planned for Labour Party conference
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Sep 24, 2016
Westminster Kingsway name change rejected, but others find loophole
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Sep 23, 2016
Advanced learner loan growth requests delayed as demand spikes
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Sep 23, 2016
Bigger is better for sixth forms
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Sep 23, 2016
NCG finally gets ‘good’ Ofsted after four month standoff
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Sep 23, 2016
Shock threat of Ofsted ‘civil action’
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Sep 23, 2016
The AoC has a right to defend its members
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Sep 23, 2016
Why you should contribute to the LIFES inquiry
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Sep 23, 2016
Shock threat of Ofsted ‘civil action’
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Sep 23, 2016
Bigger is better for sixth forms
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Sep 23, 2016
Westminster Kingsway name change rejected, but others find loophole
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Sep 23, 2016
Advanced learner loan growth requests delayed as demand spikes
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Sep 23, 2016
NCG finally gets ‘good’ Ofsted after four month standoff
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Sep 23, 2016
AoC takes DfE to court over controversial new small school sixth form
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Sep 22, 2016
The Tories are letting the country down on apprenticeships funding
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Sep 22, 2016
Ofqual fines Pearson £85,000 over widespread certification failures
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Sep 22, 2016
New FE commissioner revealed, and there are two
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Sep 20, 2016
Tech in FE
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Sep 19, 2016
Leeds City College joins a three-year project to support South Leeds Academy students
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Sep 19, 2016
The sky is the limit for Epping Forest College
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Sep 19, 2016
Dr Sue answers your questions on Progress 8, college performance and grammar schools
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Sep 18, 2016
The apprenticeships system needs a rethink if it’s going to succeed
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Sep 17, 2016
Liz Rees: From apprenticeships to Pussy Riot
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Sep 17, 2016
Keith Smith returns to SFA to lead on apprenticeship levy
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Sep 16, 2016
A full house for FE Week’s #SaveOurApprenticeships campaign
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Sep 16, 2016
Star names unveiled for AoC annual conference
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Sep 16, 2016
Motor industry boss lambasts PM for not ‘recognising’ apprenticeship funding cuts
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Sep 16, 2016
Star names unveiled for AoC annual conference
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Sep 16, 2016
Our first day in Parliament to #SaveOurApprenticeships
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FE Week
Sep 16, 2016
Apprenticeship levy is ‘just another tax’ on employers
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FE Week
Sep 16, 2016
Motor industry boss lambasts PM for not ‘recognising’ apprenticeship funding cuts
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FE Week
Sep 16, 2016
My vision for boosting our country’s skills base
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FE Week
Sep 16, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Keith Smith returns to SFA to lead on apprenticeship levy
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FE Week
Sep 16, 2016
Employers will have to sign government levy contracts
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FE Week
Sep 16, 2016
Festival of Learning award winners announced
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FE Week
Sep 15, 2016
Theresa May “does not recognise” 30% – 50% potential apprenticeship funding cuts
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FE Week
Sep 14, 2016
Justine Greening quizzed by select committee on apprenticeship funding cuts
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FE Week
Sep 14, 2016
Proposed changes to apprenticeships funding will hamper social mobility
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FE Week
Sep 13, 2016
Government advisory groups kept in the dark over apprenticeship funding rate cuts
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FE Week
Sep 13, 2016
Off on a legality
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FE Week
Sep 12, 2016
Save Our Apprenticeships
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FE Week
Sep 12, 2016
Movers and Shakers: Edition 181
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FE Week
Sep 10, 2016
Editor Asks: David Hughes becomes fifth chief executive of the AoC
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FE Week
Sep 10, 2016
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