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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
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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
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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
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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
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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


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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
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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
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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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Speed read: New rules for subcontracting starting from 2020/21

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has set out the measures it will take to “significantly” reduce subcontracting in…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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DfE to pay employers £750 for every T-level industry placement

Employers will be offered cash incentives of up to £750 per student on a T-level industry placement from September,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Provider shuts its doors to hundreds of young engineering apprentices

A training provider has laid off all 30 staff and shut its door to hundreds of young engineering apprentices,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

Long read, Prison education

The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release

‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, FE Commissioner

Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal

Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
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