Skills minister Matthew Hancock will today set out a £214m investment plan for 47 colleges across the UK, alongside plans for a more rigorous and responsive skills delivery system.
The government’s new skills strategy, Rigour and Responsiveness in Skills, includes stronger action to support the majority of good and outstanding colleges, and new powers to intervene where colleges are failing. Ofsted currently judges two-thirds of colleges to be ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ however 4% are judged to be inadequate. Mr Hancock said: “It is wholly…
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