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Learndirect Is Funded by the Public Yet Fails Them

August 14, 2017

The Financial Times reports on the findings of the Ofsted Report, which concluded that the public funded yet privately owned Learndirect is systematically failing to provide the vital job training and career planning services that it is contracted to provide.

Read more here: https://www.ft.com/content/3a85ac1c-7dd9-11e7-9108-edda0bcbc928?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3-a635-873e61754ec6

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