Twelve cash-strapped colleges received secret government bailouts totalling more than £11 million in December.
It perhaps demonstrates a significant increase in the amount of money being dished out to struggling colleges and has prompted demands for greater transparency.
The figures were published by the Department for Education as part of a scheduled release detailing monthly expenditure.
Accountability for the use of taxpayers money requires full and immediate transparency; there is no excuse for anything less, said Mark Dawe, the chief executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers.
It is encouraging that the FE commissioner now has a wide-ranging brief to help colleges in diff…
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