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SPONSORED: What does the future hold for functional skills?

Functional Skills are changing, and NCFE is ahead of the game. NCFE Functional Skills come with a fantastic range…

Features Team
Features Team
News, WorldSkills 2017

WorldSkills 2017: BAE Systems apprentice aims for gold

Team UK’s Shane Carpenter is hoping the 12 weeks he was allowed off work from Britain’s biggest defence manufacturer…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News, WorldSkills 2017

WorldSkills 2017: Spectacular opening ceremony marks the start of competitions

The best of British took centre stage with the world watching tonight as Abu Dhabi put on a spectacular…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

MPs consider investigating the state of FE loans

The student loans system will come under parliamentary scrutiny – an investigation which may include FE. The Treasury select…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News, WorldSkills 2017

WorldSkills 2017: General Assembly hands 2021 competition to China

The WorldSkills General Assembly has today officially confirmed that Shanghai will host the 2021 competition. China was the only country…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofsted watch: Sixth-form college lifts grade to ‘good’ in mixed week

A sixth-form college has improved its Ofsted rating by one grade to ‘good’, in a mixed week for FE…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke


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DfE ‘watching it closely’ as management becomes England’s second most popular apprenticeship subject

Management has soared in popularity to become the second most common apprenticeship framework, FE Week analysis can reveal. According…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

Ex-ITP boss on trial for alleged Sunderland College fraud

The ex-chief executive of a training provider and her former colleagues are on trial for allegedly defrauding a college…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News, WorldSkills 2017

FE Week asks: Neil Bentley on the vital role of WorldSkills

As Team UK packed their belongings and headed to the sandy deserts of Abu Dhabi for WorldSkills 2017, FE Week’s…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Outgoing ESFA chief takes “personal responsibility” for Learndirect decisions

The outgoing head of the ESFA has claimed personal responsibility for the decision not to terminate Learndirect’s adult education…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News, WorldSkills 2017

WorldSkills 2017: A school visit to remember for Team UK

Singing, dancing, glow-in-the-dark shows and a bird of prey; Team UK’s first outing in Abu Dhabi certainly had it…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Frustration as 5% tolerance on English and maths extended indefinitely

The five-per-cent tolerance on the notorious English and maths condition of funding rule will apply “until further notice”, the…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke

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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
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