News

Proposed foreign worker levy could net sector millions

A proposed new levy on foreign workers could net the FE sector millions a year — but businesses warned...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Bulletin

Close shave for cancer charity

A South Cheshire College learner shaved off her locks and raised more than £450 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Chelsea...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

What’s so special about apprenticeships?

Graham Taylor questions whether apprenticeships are really worth all the funding and special attention being lavished on them by...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Chief inspector should look closer to home for poor performance

Phil Hatton rebuts claims by Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw that the FE sector was “inadequate at best”...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Making the levy work for charities

Anjelica Finnegan looks at what needs to be considered to make the apprenticeship levy work for charities. In April...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The ‘painful’ path from inadequate to good

After a visit from FE Commissioner Dr David Collins in 2014, Weymouth College went from an Ofsted rating of...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

EDITORIAL: Boles bottles it

Editor’s comment ‘I don’t know, or if I did I wouldn’t tell you’ — it’s quite a statement for...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Profiles

Steve McCabe, Labour MP for Birmingham

As both a former FE learner and lecturer, Labour MP for Birmingham and Selly Oak Steve McCabe knows the...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Leaders rush to defend FE from Sir Michael

Key FE figures have spoken out in defence of the sector following a scathing attack by Ofsted boss Sir...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter