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Revealed: The 6 apprenticeship providers banned from taking new recruits

Six new apprenticeship providers have been barred from taking on new apprentices after early monitoring visits found them to…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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West Notts College handed DfE warning after requesting £2.1m in exceptional financial support

A cash-strapped college has received a financial health notice to improve from the government after requesting exceptional financial support…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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3aaa co-founders resign following ESFA investigation

The co-founders of apprenticeship giant Aspire Achieve Advance have resigned in the midst of a government investigation into the…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Education minister heads to Germany in search of T-level solutions

The education secretary is touring Germany and Holland this week to learn more about their famous vocational education systems…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

IFS: FE the ‘biggest loser’ in cuts to government funding

Further education has been the victim of the sharpest cuts in the education sector over the last 25 years,…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

‘He will be sorely missed’: Warm tributes paid to AELP founder Frank McMahon

One of the original founders of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers has died after a short illness. Frank McMahon was…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


News

College makes star of learner with dwarfism – but for all the wrong reasons

Colleges hit the headlines this summer – but for all the wrong reasons. Louis Makepeace, an 18-year-old with dwarfism,…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Revealed: Uncovered emails discuss ‘review’ of studio schools programme, but DfE still denies it happened

The Department for Education is still denying it conducted a formal review of studio schools – despite FE Week discovering an attempt…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

Ofsted watch: A trio of ‘insufficient progress’ reports

Three new apprenticeship providers have been found to be making ‘insufficient progress’ in at least one area under review…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Great debate on T-levels: an ambitious or reckless timetable?

The motion: This house believes the T-level reform implementation timeframe is ambitious but not reckless More than 200 figures…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

AoC senior pay policy: 5 main proposals for college leaders

The Association of Colleges has this morning published its proposed new senior staff pay code for colleges. FE Week…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

EPA assessor capacity: Will England be able to cope in the long-term?

By 2020, when the apprenticeship reforms will have taken full effect, there are likely to be around 500,000 end-point…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke

Must read

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
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