Colleges 'not leading to work'

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Colleges are failing to put jobseekers on courses that will help them find work, inspectors have warned.

Instead, these adults are being offered basic classes which simply lead to qualifications or more training, according to an Ofsted report. Less than one in five jobseekers were successful in gaining work after taking courses at a further education (FE) centre, it found.

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