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🗞️This week's FE Week front page:. Cohesion in colleges: One year on from last summer’s riots, has the smoke really cleared on the tensions dividing communities?. Subscribe | #TomorrowsPapersToday
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In a recent @WEAadulted report, 84% of those with pre-existing mental-health conditions said that taking an adult-learning course had improved their wellbeing – so why isn't adult education part of the NHS prevention strategy? .@SimonParkinson6 .
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The NHS 10-year plan, which has prevention at its heart, is undermined by the cuts to adult education funding
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💸 An exam board will be fined £350,000 after more than 1,500 GCSE students received the wrong exam results last year .
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The exam board WJEC will be fined £350,000 after more than 1,500 GCSE students received the wrong exam results last year, Ofqual has announced
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'Cancelled classes and delayed cohorts are unwelcome consequences of tutor shortages – and it’s not just affecting accounting'.Cath Littler, @Mindful_Edu_UK makes the case for providers growing their own AAT tutors.
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The FE sector faces a crisis with tutor shortages. But the recruitment solution could lie within
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RT @SMCommission: Chair @FrancisAlun recently spoke to @FEWeek discussing the need to shift focus from deficit narratives to understanding….
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⏸️ Funding results for the £8 million warm homes skills programme have been paused because providers were caught advertising courses before any funding was confirmed.
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Providers were caught promoting courses before funding had been confirmed
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'Deficit narratives about poverty are not constructive and are inconsistent with our core mission as educationalists'.Social mobility commission chair @FrancisAlun on why support 'shouldn’t signal a drift from education towards a quasi-welfare service'.
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Let's not use poverty as an excuse for underperformance
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Social mobility commission chair @FrancisAlun on why support 'for young people in poverty shouldn’t signal a drift from education towards a quasi-welfare service'.
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Let's not use poverty as an excuse for underperformance
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Turing Scheme funding cuts make it more challenging for colleges rto provide global experience. Kate Erskine, @DiversityTravel on how they can make the most of tightened budgets.
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Recent Turing Scheme funding cuts have left FE colleges scrambling to sustain international study trips
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🔎 Local officials and an exam board have launched investigations into a Yorkshire college’s ESOL achievement rates .
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Two staff members have been suspended pending multiple investigations, according to reports
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'This decision isn’t fiscal prudence – it’s institutional vandalism'.Ernest Edifor of @ManMetUni on the impact of level 7 apprenticeship funding cuts to the HE sector.
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Cutting Level 7 apprenticeships funding strips universities of critical revenue and leaves skills gaps wider
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🏫Governors at @WestThames have appointed a new principal and CEO.
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Incoming boss Marta Gajewska vows to 'keep raising the bar'
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There’s been a wave of FE college principals and CEOs retiring lately - Paul Aristides of AQ and Liz Bromley of @NCG_Official believe their expertise could be of great benefit to ailing university govening boards.
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FE colleges have strong, diverse governance while university boards could benefit from FE expertise
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'I have the freedom to choose my route, many don’t'.@dawe_mark of @skillsnetworkuk .Discover why ignoring e-learning in our devolved world might feel like an uphill battle.
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As power shifts to regions, online education must be part of the plan – or risk deepening inequality
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🆕 The Department for Education overspent its apprenticeships budget for the first time last year in what has been described as a 'landmark moment'
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Experts warn that further ‘trade-offs’ may need to be made in future
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'I have the freedom to choose my route, many don’t'.@dawe_mark of @skillsnetworkuk on why not embracing online learning in the devolved age might feel like uphill running.
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As power shifts to regions, online education must be part of the plan – or risk deepening inequality
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📚 Raising the age to which children must participate in school, college or training to 18 has seen 'limited impact' ten years after implementation, a study suggests
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But researchers say the policy has 'untapped potential to expand learning opportunities' as they call for a review
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