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Monthly apprenticeships update: March starts fall 24% while April plummets by 72%

Apprenticeship starts for the month of March 2020 are down by a quarter while April plunged by 72 per…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Boris confirms college face-to-face plans can go ahead from 15 June

Boris Johnson has given colleges the green light to begin their wider reopening to students from 15 June after…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

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
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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
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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
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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


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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
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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
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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

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Colleges, Long read

Colleges on the frontline of a divided nation

As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read

Alun Francis, chair of the Social Mobility Commission

Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
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’

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Jessica Hill
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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