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Summary report and letter, from the Minister for State for Apprenticeships and Skills to Hartlepool Sixth-Form College
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Find out how the College for National Security is breaking down barriers to improving understanding of national security across the Civil Service and beyond.
Information allowing colleges established or designated under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 to compare their financial data with national totals and other organisations.
Apply to become a Wave 2 Technical Excellence College in Defence, Clean Energy, Digital and Technologies or Advanced Manufacturing.
The £15 million SCIF provided grants to colleges that needed to improve the quality of their provision of education and training.
The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) has been repurposed and no longer exists. Regulation of the teaching profession, including misconduct hearings, will continue to be handled by an executive agency of the Department for Education, the Teaching Regulation...
Standards and guidance for the design and construction of school and college buildings and outdoor environments.
The National College for School Leadership was an executive agency of the United Kingdom’s Department for Education which offers headteachers, school leaders and senior children’s services leaders opportunities for professional leadership development. On 1 April 2013, the NCSL was merged...
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