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Dawe quits AELP to lead training provider

Mark Dawe is stepping down as chief executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers to head up…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Labour hits out at government response to AELP’s claim ESFA provider relief is ‘unlawful’

Labour has accused the government of failing to make a “serious attempt” to answer AELP’s claim that the Education…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

PM ‘will look at the idea’ of offering an ‘apprenticeships guarantee’

The prime minister has said he will “look at the idea” of giving young people aged 16 to 25…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

ESFA subcontracting consultation response pushed back to June

The government’s response to a consultation that outlined plans to overhaul subcontracting rules in further education has been delayed…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Free recording: Latest FE policy response and requirements to Covid-19 outbreak

The latest webcast in FE Week’s series – further education sector’s response and requirements to the coronavirus pandemic –…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Feature, News

Incorporation: The end of an experiment or the end of a myth?

Ministers are considering taking colleges back into government control, as revealed last week in these pages. But, Jess Staufenberg…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


News

Milton slams lack of ‘joined-up thinking’ that led to college bailouts

A former skills minster has described the “nonsense” of her colleagues setting up schools that competed with the struggling…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Boris reveals college face-to-face plans must be delayed until 15 June at earliest

The prime minister has unexpectedly announced a two week delay to when colleges can begin their wider reopening of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Union blasts college redundancy plans during coronavirus crisis as “unnecessary and unfair”

A large general FE college has announced its seventh round of job cuts in six years. Blackburn College has…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

Ofqual publish final plans for exam alternatives this summer

This afternoon, as promised, Ofqual has published final details for their “exceptional arrangements for awarding qualifications this summer”. Click…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Exam boards seeking more than £16 million from DfE for Covid flexibility costs

A “formal” request for more than £16 million to be “reimbursed”  has been submitted by awarding organisations (AOs) to…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Second college merger postponed due to Covid-19

A merger involving a college that previously warned it was dependent upon the move for survival has been delayed…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu

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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