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Unions that represent sixth form college teachers have agreed to participate in a series of talks to avoid striking. The National Union of Teachers (NUT), which has threatened to take industrial action on March 26th in protest to government policy Read more…


A sixth form college in Hampshire has received a £55,000 tax rebate after it was ruled its in-house restaurant should be exempt from VAT. MJ’s at Brockenhurst College is open to the public and is run by students. It offers Read more…


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The government has been accused of underestimating the value of student loans that will never be paid back, according to a group of MPs. A report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) claimed there is currently £46 billion of outstanding Read more…


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Recent successes at Dereham sixth form college have sparked a surge in new pupil admissions. However, such a rapid rise has prompted longer-term questions about funding as the site nears its capacity, according to EDP24. The college in Norfolk has Read more…


Michael Gove’s latest spending cuts have apparently caused some colleges to scrap A-levels in subjects such as maths and languages. According to research from the Independent, leaders of the country’s sixth form colleges state they have lost more than £100 Read more…


A specialist sixth form college in Wirral has formed a partnership with a Chinese university. The Sixth Form College in Birkenhead has signed a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ with Soochow University High School in Suzhou, eastern China, according to the Wirral Read more…


An £11 million investment for the Bournemouth and Poole college has been given the go-ahead. The plans will transform the North Road campus in Poole by creating a modern theatre for performing arts and a complex of classrooms for media Read more…


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Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge has been named as one of the best 30 state schools in the country. According to Tatler magazine, the college is among the “creme de la creme” of educational facilities in the country Read more…


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Sixth form colleges’ hopes of obtaining a VAT refund have not materialised. According to the FE Week, Michael Gove has admitted that the funding was not available from the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne. Currently, all the sixth form Read more…


New vocational qualifications, dubbed ‘Tech Levels’, have been announced. The qualifications, which are of equivalent standard to A-levels, are designed to ameliorate teenagers’ work skills. Tech Levels range from motorcycle maintenance to patisserie baking, and each qualification is designed to Read more…

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