News Draft Labour Party manifesto FE section in full A copy of the Draft Labour Party manifesto was leaked to FE Week yesterday. Here’s the section on further… FE Week Reporter 8y FE Week Reporter 8y News Campaign launched to protect vulnerable learners from Brexit cuts A campaign has been launched today to prevent huge Brexit-induced cuts to FE funding, which supports learners who “fall… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Breaking: AoC manifesto calls for employer levy funding restrictions The Association of Colleges’ manifesto has called for new levy funding restrictions on employers. The document was unveiled this… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Exclusive Labour spells out plans to drive apprenticeships quality to FE Week Labour has exclusively spelled out its plans to drive up the quality of apprenticeships to FE Week. It comes… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Lib Dems commit to defending 16 to 19 funding A “real-terms” commitment to protect 16 to 19 FE funding per pupil has been announced by the Liberal Democrats…. Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Labour pledge to stop adult learner fees would mean scrapping FE loans A pledge to stop fees on courses for adult learners, which FE Week has learned would involve scrapping advanced… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Exclusive Exclusive: Election delay for results of first adult education budget procurement The announcement of results of the first ever procurement process for the adult education budget has been delayed until… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y Advertisements, News Paying training bills by Direct Debit could be key to apprenticeship levy success Taking on apprentices has long been off-putting for businesses because many believe that trainees’ courses are expensive and the… FE Week Reporter 8y FE Week Reporter 8y News Principal leaving UTC as year 10 recruitment stopped An ‘inadequate’ university technical college will not take on any new year 10 students from September and is on… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Ambassador vows to ‘beat drum’ over small business fears The government’s small business apprenticeship ambassador will “continue to beat the drum” over fears that limited access to funding… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Support Our Sixth-formers campaign launched An extra £200 funding per sixth form student should be given to improve the support providers can offer these… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Area review transition fund shrouded in secrecy Confusion reigns over the £726 million fund earmarked to help colleges make changes recommended by the area reviews, after… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y Newer 1 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 804 Older Must read Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive 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 6d Anviksha Patel 6d 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 3w Anviksha Patel 3w 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Next 3 stories Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 1mo Josh Mellor 1mo Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps Exclusive 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 2mo Billy Camden and Frances Read 2mo Apprenticeships Entrepreneur chased for millions after apprenticeship collapse ESFA uncovers ‘fake’ taxi apprentices as liquidator reveals intercompany payments days after firm decided to shut Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo
