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🫰 A care worker apprenticeship training provider is being chased for £1.2 million by the Department for Education after investigators uncovered systemic contract breaches
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✅ The first FE provider to receive Ofsted’s new highest mark has been revealed - as the watchdog published the first batch of new-style report cards

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'Remind staff why their work matters'
@samparrett1 and @mrawolfe reflect on how for FE to be the sector that changes lives, it must first protect the people who run it
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Skills policy in a changing political landscape
We examined what each opposition party is saying – and not saying – about FE
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A Labour think tank director who tried to unseat Jeremy Corbyn has been appointed as an 'expert adviser' on skills to work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden
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✈️ This week's movers features two FE professionals who caught the travel bug in their former lives as a tour operator and an aspiring pilot

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🤝 Multiple colleges have settled pay disputes with unionised lecturers ahead of next week’s England-wide strike action

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'Quality should be judged by impact, not institution type'
@stuartallen14 , @SCLeducation makes the case for why ITPs must be protected in the switch to T and V Levels
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🆕 The Charity Commission has escalated its scrutiny of City & Guilds by opening a formal statutory inquiry into the controversial sale of its awarding body commercial arm feweek.co.uk/watchdog-opens…

🪖 Two regional authorities are ditching the skills bootcamp training model after gaining greater freedom over adult skills plans in new devolution deals
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✂️ Ministers stand accused of downplaying the scale of cuts to prison education budgets after an arms-length body found evidence of 'seismic' reductions

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'We need the data to prove how FE's reach goes far beyond the classroom'
Dr Vikki Smith, @E_T_Foundation
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👩‍⚖️ The Department for Education is counter-suing a former apprenticeship provider for more than £800k after alleging widespread dodgy funding claims – including that public money was unlawfully used to pay apprentices’ wages feweek.co.uk/dfe-raises-sta…

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Mayors give bootcamps the boot as devo freedoms kick in

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📝 The proportion of students passing their English language GCSE resits in November increased this academic year, new figures show

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