News Ofsted watch: College bounces back from inadequate to good A college that has bounced back from a grade four to a grade two is leading the charge on… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Exclusive Apprenticeship frameworks could be discontinued without SFA approval The UK’s food and drink frameworks could be switched off against the government’s wishes, FE Week has learned. The… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Exclusive More loans misery as provider goes under Yet another training provider has gone bust, leaving dozens more blameless learners left with plenty of loans debt but… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News SFA blasted over ‘mystery shopper’ scheme FE Week readers are up in arms about the Skills Funding Agency’s new mystery shopper scheme to test apprenticeships,… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Unison: First4Skills collapse ‘could have broken the law’ The UK’s strict redundancy laws may have been breached when one of the largest apprenticeship providers in England unexpectedly… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News Breaking: SFA unveils ‘mystery shopper’ scheme to test how ready providers are for apprenticeship reforms The Skills Funding Agency has launched a new “mystery shopper” scheme to find out how prepared providers are for… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Budget 2017: Sector hails Hammond’s ‘breakthrough budget’ for skills Today’s spring budget has been hailed as a “breakthrough budget for skills” as chancellor Philip Hammond confirmed major extra… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Levy confusion: Final SFA apprenticeship allocation meeting cancelled A key meeting that the Skills Funding Agency was supposed to hold today, to reach final decisions on which… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News National Apprenticeship Week 2017: More than 10,000 back world record attempt through giant careers advice assembly More than 10,000 young people joined-in for a giant careers advice assembly, through a world record attempt for National… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News BREAKING: FE champion Shakira Martin standing for NUS president The top job at the National Union of Students is in the sights of Shakira Martin, currently vice president… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Exclusive: Third largest awarding organisation pulls out of apprenticeship market Awarding giant OCR has delivered a major blow to the government’s reforms programme by pulling out of delivering final… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Making sense of the plans for T-Levels As reported in FE Week yesterday, the Budget on Wednesday will announce new money for technical education to fund… FE Week Reporter 8y FE Week Reporter 8y Newer 1 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 804 Older Must read 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 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 Next 3 stories 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 Adult education Exclusive Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo
