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Pleasure to speak at Training Provider AI summit urging providers to be more demanding of regulators and suppliers, stop labelling students ‘cheats’, avoid crap tech and walk through findings of Jessica Hill’s excellent FE Week investigation

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Good morning from Petroc where it’s the Training Provider AI summit. Jason Bradbury impossible act to follow with this entrance.

MP Marie Rimmer MP asks why apprentices are not completing.

Luke Hall MP says starts among young people are up but work to be done on achievements #EducationQuestions

Today is Luke Hall MP's first education question time in the House of Commons.

Follow FE Week for updates from the session at 2.30pm

Careers & Enterprise Company chief executive Oli de Botton is on a mission to transform careers education, and reinvent work experience. But his lasting legacy might just prove to be putting oracy on the political agenda. feweek.co.uk/oli-de-botton-…

Michelle Obama says it’s bonkers to think by this time next week the East Midlands will have elected its first ever regional mayor

A university that shortened a degree apprenticeship to help fill NHS shortages quicker has been criticised by Ofsted.

Perfect example here of standards conflicting with ‘meeting employer needs’

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‘I have been part of running apprenticeship schemes in retail and know the benefit they can offer school-leavers’

✍️ New skills minister Luke Hall MP

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'just 8 per cent of T Level foundation-year students progressed to a T Level.'

One of the greatest education mis-selling scandals in modern history. What an appalling way to treat young people.

Update: DfE has placed NewVIc in formal for 'insufficient governance, oversight and management'

This follows the college's scathing Ofsted inspection report published yesterday.

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Multi Academy Tesla

100% of sixth form colleges were graded ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ … until yesterday

London’s NewVIc broke the broke the two year streak with students facing staffing disruption, ineffective teaching and admin errors - it’s now exploring a merger

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Explaining the 16-19 education funding formula to Wes Streeting MP c2010

Cuts on this scale require much planning & an acceptance they will have a serious impact. These services: courts, local govt, FE, prisons are unsexy but so important to our quality of life, productivity & social cohesion

After the PM’s defence spending commitment yesterday, Institute for Fiscal Studies now predict 4% cuts to unprotected budgets like further education