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🥇Breaking: Welsh colleges have dominated the medal table at the 2025 WorldSkills UK national finals

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WorldSkills UK finals: Welsh colleges top 2025 medal table
'The future of the economy' honoured as gold, silver and bronze medals awarded after a tough week of national skills competition finals
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November 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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🎖️Forty-two foundation skills students have won gold, silver and bronze medals at the 2025 WorldSkills UK national finals

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WorldSkills UK: 2025 foundation skills medallists announced
Over 70 SEND and high needs students competed in eight national skills competition finals in Cardiff today
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November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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'Where safety is non-negotiable, these reforms feel like a race to the bottom'
Ann Watson, @enginuity.bsky.social and Justine Fosh, Cogent Skills on safety risks in the apprenticeship assessment reforms
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November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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🪧 Teachers in 33 colleges will walk out for three days in January in strikes over pay and workloads, UCU has announced

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UCU reveals January strike days in 33 colleges
Teachers and lecturers will walk out for three days in January over pay and workloads in 33 colleges following an England-wide ballot for industrial action
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November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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💰 Emergency cash to cope with a teenage population spike will create around 9,000 extra college places across Leeds and Greater Manchester, it is forecast
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DfE’s £20m spike cash helps buy 9,000 student places
Emergency cash to cope with a teenage population spike will create around 9,000 extra college places across Leeds and Greater Manchester, it is forecast
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November 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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'More needs to be done to help small employers hire apprentices'
Tina McKenzie, @fsb-uk.bsky.social reacts to the Budget
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November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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🤏 Rachel Reeves’ tweaks to the apprenticeship levy funding system will 'squeeze' large employers and risks 'dampening appetite' for skills investment, business groups and experts have warned feweek.co.uk/reeves-puts-...
Reeves puts the ‘squeeze’ on big employers with budget levy tweaks
Chancellor warned that trio of reforms 'risks dampening appetite among levy-paying organisations already dealing with rising hiring, pension and tax costs'
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November 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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🤔 Ministers are still deciding whether V Levels will be developed under the same single-licence model as T Levels, a senior Department for Education official has revealed
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Officials hesitate over V Level licence model
Ministers are still deciding whether V Levels will be developed under the same single-licence model as T Levels, a senior DfE official has revealed.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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👎 Incoming assessment reforms will not 'dilute' or 'dumb down' apprenticeships, a Skills England boss has claimed following a backlash from employers feweek.co.uk/were-not-dil...
‘We’re not diluting apprenticeships’: Skills England deputy hits back at assessment reform backlash
Incoming assessment reforms will not “dilute” or “dumb down” apprenticeships, a Skills England boss has claimed following a backlash from employers.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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🔍 Apprenticeship starts saw a small rise in 2024-25. Here's what we found beneath the headline figures from today's full-year apprenticeships stats drop:

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Multiverse closes in on Lifetime’s apprenticeships lead
New figures show level 7 apprenticeships drove most of this year’s growth as under-19 starts fell to their lowest since the pandemic
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November 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Interview: NCFE chief David Gallagher has been elected chair of the Federation of Awarding Bodies feweek.co.uk/interview-da...
Interview: David Gallagher elected chair of FAB
NCFE chief outlines his priorities to help awarding bodies weather a storm of reform
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November 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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'These lessons turn a trade into a livelihood'
David Morgan, Entrepreneurs Unlocked on how shrinking curriculums risk undoing progress in prison education
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November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Breaking: Large automobile apprenticeship provider Remit Training has been sold to a private equity-backed training firm feweek.co.uk/remit-traini...
Remit Training sale puts new owners in the driving seat
'Outstanding' provider Remit Training has been acquired by private equity-backed owners from chairman Rob Foulston and CEO Sue Pittock
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November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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'A guarantee that excludes young people with SEND is a moral failure'
Ben Bastin, @natspec.bsky.social on how the government's youth guarantee fails to reflect the needs of SEND young people
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November 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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🎓 Further education colleges and providers will be in scope for a new tax on international higher education students that will cost £925 per learner, according to a consultation published today
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FE providers in scope for £925 international student levy
Further education colleges and providers will be in scope for a new tax on international higher education students that will cost £925 per learner, according to a consultation published today. The…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Breaking: The government is set to scrap co-investment payments that small and medium-sized employers have to pay for apprentices under the age of 25 feweek.co.uk/budget-2025-...
Budget 2025: SME co-investment relief extended to under 25 apprentices
The government is set to scrap co-investment payments that small and medium-sized employers have to pay for apprentices under the age of 25.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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'90% of those who've completed an apprenticeship with us went on to join us in a full-time position'
Monique Macauley, STEP academy trust on how school apprenticeships are quietly transforming how they recruit, train and retain talent
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November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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The minimum hourly wage for apprentices will be boosted to £8 next April, the chancellor has announced feweek.co.uk/apprentice-m...
Apprentice minimum wage to rise to £8
New hourly rate will apply from April 2026, chancellor set to announce at tomorrow’s budget
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November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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🏆 Four colleges have been named among the winners of the 2025 Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education

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Royal recognition: 4 colleges win top national prize
Queen Elizabeth Prizes announced for disruptive construction training, AI-powered ESOL, automotive skills leadership and an SME innovator
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November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Intervention programmes can be effective – but only if staff consider student motivations, make themselves available and speak with one voice
Carla Campbell, LSEC
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November 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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A deep dive feature on pressures facing NEET provision, from pastoral care demands to an instable employability market and restrictive funding rules ⬇️
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November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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😳 Colleges are being asked to do more with less, says the IFS, in new analysis of the government's white paper reforms vs funding

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White paper asks colleges to do more with less, says IFS
Top economists warn that the government's further education and skills reform plans 'do not add up to a coherent strategy'
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November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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🍿 Our FE movers this week have had several star-studded encounters including Nicole Kidman, Samuel L. Jackson and Boyzone

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 513
Our FE movers this week have had several star-studded encounters including Nicole Kidman, Samuel L. Jackson and Boyzone
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November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM