Adult education, Training Providers

Provider challenging ‘flawed’ AEB tender in the high court

Lawyers are set to go to battle at the high court later this month, in the first ever challenge…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

DfE granted screening firm access to 28m learner records

The founder of a firm at the centre of a major education data breach involving betting companies was subject…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Education secretary calls on sector to support a UK WorldSkills bid

Education secretary Gavin Williamson has applauded the UK’s ambition to host an upcoming WorldSkills competition – and is encouraging…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Back A Bid: Campaign to host WorldSkills 2027 in the UK

FE Week is coordinating a campaign for the UK to host WorldSkills in 2027. The chief executive of WordSkills…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Coupland tells FE Week she will have ‘independent voice’ and is ‘excited to step out of the confines’ of the DfE

The new boss of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education is “excited to step out of the confines”…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

FE Commissioner’s leadership team to nearly double

The FE Commissioner has almost doubled the number of national leaders of further education (NLFEs) and national leaders of…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu


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DfE gender pay gap closing – but men get bigger bonuses

Bonuses paid to men working at the Department for Education were on average 3.8 per cent larger than those…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Thousands of apprentices dumped by training provider after Ofsted inspection

More than 2,500 apprentices and adult learners have been left in the lurch after their provider immediately exited the…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

British Airways own apprenticeship recruitment faces grounding after Ofsted visit

Apprenticeships at a major airline have been heavily criticised by Ofsted, which found “disorganisation” and “inconsistency” meant too many…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Plea for extra £750m from new Institute for Apprenticeships boss

The new boss of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has called for an additional £750 million of…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Sector leaders hit back at Ofsted for ‘encouraging government’ to restrict funding choices

Sector bodies have hit back at Ofsted’s chief inspector for “encouraging government” to restrict course choices made by colleges…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofsted boss still ‘not happy’ with colleges ‘flooding’ economy with arts and media students

Ofsted’s chief inspector is still “not happy” that some colleges steer too many of their students towards “superficially attractive”…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
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’

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill