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 News Cancer Research UK calls for major levy rethink over charities More than 20 leading charities including Cancer Research UK have joined forces to raise grave concerns over the apprenticeship… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y Newer 1 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 808 Older Must read Long read, Prison education Long read 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 3d Jessica Hill 3d Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 3w Billy Camden 3w 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 4w Anviksha Patel 4w Next 3 stories 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 2mo Josh Mellor 2mo
