Government pulls all Learndirect contracts and funding

A leading thinktank said the alleged mismanagement at Learndirect was symptomatic of the systemic failure of public policy.The government is to cancel all contracts with Learndirect, the adult training provider that tried to suppress a damning regulator’s report into its poor standards.The Department for Education said on Tuesday that it would withdraw all funding from the organisation, which is responsible for almost 73,000 trainees, by July 2018 and that it had already banned it from tak