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📈 DfE claims it is 'on track' for mental health support teams covering every school and college by 2029 - but new figures show coverage of post-16 learners is half that of secondary school pupils
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The University of Cambridge has been fined £875k after automated marking failures caused thousands of people to receive incorrect English language test results, including some needed for visa, immigration and university https://feweek.co.uk/cambridge-fined-875k-for-automated-test-blunder/
🪖 Three FE colleges have won a share of an £80 million government fund to increase defence-related education places and improved facilities
https://feweek.co.uk/three-colleges-land-share-of-80m-defence-skills-fund/
👏 A deputy principal will step up to replace chief executive Craig Hodgson when he retires from Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group
https://feweek.co.uk/insider-wins-promotion-to-lead-fe-college-group/
🤝 Dame Sarah Healey has been named as the Department for Work and Pensions’ next permanent secretary
https://feweek.co.uk/former-dfe-civil-servant-appointed-dwp-permanent-secretary/
👷 Construction safety card costs, free maths and English courses for apprentices, visa documentation requirements and frozen funding rates have all been confirmed in new adult skills fund rules published today
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📣 Applications have opened for organisations to deliver the government’s national jobs guarantee, with ministers expecting the scheme to support more than 90,000 long-term unemployed young people
https://feweek.co.uk/dwp-launches-hunt-for-25-jobs-guarantee-national-delivery-partners/
✂️ Funding for devolved areas to run skills bootcamps has been cut by more than half this financial year, data suggests
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Tributes from across the world have been paid to the former CEO of UK Skills and president of WorldSkills, Simon Bartley, who died last month
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👷 A construction skills quango has launched an 'accelerated apprenticeships' grant programme that will fund its network of 20 training 'hubs' first promised in late 2024
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