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Extra £101m for school and college leavers to return for a third year

The government has pledged £101 million to give all 18 to 19 year olds who are struggling to find…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Chancellor announces ‘brand-new bonus for businesses to hire apprentices’

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a “brand new bonus” for employers to hire apprentices over the next six months….

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

DfE scraps T-level subject after employers express ‘viability and deliverability concerns’

The rollout of T-levels has taken another slip after the government canned a subject and delayed the start of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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FE Commissioner tells MPs he thinks dozens of colleges could run out of cash next year

There are 30 to 40 colleges “at risk of running out of cash” following the coronavirus crisis, the FE…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Chancellor expected to reveal sliding scale of employer cash incentives to boost apprenticeships

The chancellor is set to announce a sliding scale of cash incentives for employers to take on both young…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

ESFA waters down apprenticeship oversight for new providers

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has softened its policy on allowing paused providers to start recruiting again. Since…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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College intervention regime resumes as AoC calls for post-Covid FE Commissioner ‘rethink’

The Association of Colleges is calling for a post-Covid-19 “rethink” of the sector’s intervention regime as the FE Commissioner…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Government urged to let adults return to class before September

FE sector membership bodies have joined forces to urge the education secretary to let adults return to training before…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Plan to triple traineeships with £111m to include £1,000 employer ‘bonus’

The chancellor is expected to announce on Wednesday a £1,000 employer incentive funded from an injection of £111 million…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Locked-up and locked-down: how prison education has fared during Covid-19

FE Week takes a look at how prison education has adapted after face-to-face teaching was suspended following the Covid-19…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Ofsted to resume visits in September with published reports but no grades

Ofsted will start visiting colleges and training providers again from September – with letters about what the inspectors found…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofsted watch: Colleges see top results from last drop of Ofsted reports until 2021

General FE colleges received a string of positive results, including a grade one, in June from the last drop…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon

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Colleges

Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal

Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
T Levels

NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure

Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education, ITPs

Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers

Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps

Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps

Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Frances Read
Apprenticeships

Entrepreneur chased for millions after apprenticeship collapse

ESFA uncovers ‘fake’ taxi apprentices as liquidator reveals intercompany payments days after firm decided to shut

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets

Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen