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FErret
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Anne Milton, FE champion? How the minister went quiet
After repeatedly making the case for an FE funding boost, former skills minister Anne Milton has gone oddly quiet
5 September 2019
Minister accidentally promotes ‘National Numberacy Day’
A slip of the finger led to skills minister Anne Milton inadvertently launching a new event: ‘National Numberacy Day’
15 May 2019
Adult education commission? Not another one!
FErret thinks all these commissions are jolly worthy, but is anyone actually listening?
22 February 2019
‘Who will run T levels? Meet the runners and riders’
As we wait to hear which awarding bodies won the first T-level contracts, FErret looks at where the smart money’s going
7 February 2019
FErret: Hinds’ hair-raising joke falls flat
A quip about German hairdressers should have been trimmed from Damian Hinds’ big technical education speech
10 December 2018
Apprenticeship funding bands to be reviewed
More standards face IfA funding review to ensure ‘value for money’, as Ofsted warns levy cash ‘not spent in intended way’
4 December 2018