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Rebecca Long-Bailey appointed as Labour’s new shadow education secretary

Rebecca Long-Bailey has been appointed as the shadow education secretary following a Labour Party reshuffle by new leader Keir…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Free recording: Latest FE policy response to Covid-19 outbreak

On Saturday, FE Week hosted its second webinar looking at the latest legislation and guidance from the government regarding…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Coronavirus: How colleges are going above and beyond for their local communities

Colleges across the country have volunteered their services to help local communities during the Covid-19 pandemic. FE Week shares…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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HMRC publish furlough and training guidance for apprentices

The government has finally confirmed that apprentices can continue with funded training when employers use the job retention scheme,…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Extraordinary efforts of staff still caring for vulnerable learners

FE Week has spoken to a number of specialist colleges to uncover the impact the Covid-19 crisis is having…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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DfE ploughs on with plans for T-level launch despite coronavirus concerns

The government is driving forward with plans to launch the first three T-levels from September 2020 despite the disruption…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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Funding clawback warning to colleges for deliberate under delivery

Colleges that deliberatley under deliver their adult education budget allocations this year will have their funding clawed back, the…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Coronavirus: Schools and colleges will rank GCSE and A-level pupils within grades

Schools and colleges will rank their GCSE and A-level pupils within each grade under a new system of assessment…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Chief regulator offers ‘reassurance’ over this summer’s GCSE and A-level grades

Ofqual’s chief regulator Sally Collier has “reassured” GCSE and A-level students that the grades they get this summer will…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Coronavirus: An explainer on how GCSE and A-level grades will be awarded this summer

Ofqual has revealed how students will be assessed for GCSE and A-level qualifications this summer, following the cancellation of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Hadlow break-up hits two month delay due to ‘complexity’

Delays have struck the break-up of the first college group to go insolvent owing to the “necessarily complex and…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Remote assessment guidance too vague and open to malpractice, say awarding bodies

Online assessment will only work for around 40 per cent of apprenticeships and the government’s “vague” guidance in the…

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