AEB

ESFA rejects one-third of all AEB and non-levy supplier relief applications

A third of training providers that bid for the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s apprenticeship and adult education Covid-19…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Minister rules out delay to framework switch-off after ‘careful consideration’

Gillian Keegan has ruled out an extension to the switch-off date for starts on old-style apprenticeships, known as frameworks,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Colleges in administration enter second year with more delays

The transfer to new ownership for the first colleges to be placed by the government into insolvency has been…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

College set to close with the loss of 117 jobs

A land-based college is set to close next year with the potential loss of 117 jobs following an FE…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

How to take part: the FE Week BIG FE & Skills Quiz

Fed up of lockdown? Fancy getting that brain back into gear? Want to nerd out with some other FE…

Shane Mann
Shane Mann
News

Ofsted praises 100% positive progression rate for students at ‘outstanding’ UTC

A university technical college in Hull has been dubbed a “guiding light in the education sector” after being rated…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu


News

Unions increase opposition to college reopening by warning leaders over Covid-19 ‘legal liability’

Unions have fired off a Covid-19 “liability” warning shot to school and college leaders – quoting the health and…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

ESFA launches Covid-19 supplier relief for European Social Fund providers

The government has today launched a Covid-19 supplier relief scheme for training providers with European Social Fund (ESF) contracts….

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Colleges will need to create student ‘bubbles’ to reduce Covid risk but ‘real challenge’, says AoC

The Association of Colleges has warned that reducing interaction and mixing in colleges is “going to be a real…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Unfair: Sutton Trust finds young disadvantaged ‘losing out’ on degree apprenticeships

Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are “losing out” on degree level apprenticeships as they soar in popularity without “fair…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofsted triggers government intervention at specialist college

A new college for students with special educational needs and disabilities has been suspended from recruiting learners after receiving…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Free recording: In conversation with skills minister Gillian Keegan

FE Week was joined by apprenticeships minister Gillian Keegan this afternoon for our latest webinar on the response to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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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