News Job advertised for new Education and Skills Funding Agency boss The search has begun for Peter Lauener’s replacement as head of the Education and Skills Funding Agency. The job… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Lords amendment to extend child benefit entitlement for apprentices Peers have passed an amendment to the Technical and Further Education Bill, which would extend child benefit and financial… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News First major principal leadership programme unveiled since LSIS closure A new FE principals’ leadership programme has been announced – backed with more than £1 million of government cash…. Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Government decides to retain Applied General qualifications A serious blow has potentially been dealt to plans for a rigid post-16 divide between academic and vocational education,… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Exclusive Exclusive: DfE will scrap forced resits for GCSE English and maths The government will make a major u-turn over the much-derided condition of funding rule, FE Week can reveal. From August 2015… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Breaking: SFA and EFA merger confirmed and Lauener retiring The Skills and Education Funding Agencies are merging and Peter Lauener is stepping down as boss of both, the… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Whole FE sector backs #SaveOurAdultEducation campaign A who’s who of major FE organisations have thrown their support behind FE Week’s #SaveOurAdultEducation campaign. Big names on… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Training providers spend thousands on consultants to get on new apprenticeship register Consultants are raking in thousands of pounds writing bids for training providers desperate to make it onto the new… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News London council unhappy with plans for local college to merge with group 300 miles away A London borough council is unhappy over a planned merger between a local college and a group whose headquarters… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Panel debates end-point assessment and RoATP Concerns about quality and the impact of reforms on social mobility dominated the panel debate of FE and skills… Gemma Gathercole 8y Gemma Gathercole 8y News Gordon Marsden lays out Labour’s FE policy objectives Labour would establish an official pre-apprenticeship programme, and support apprenticeships for care leavers, veterans and people with disabilities, according… FE Week 8y FE Week 8y News Editor Asks: Amanda Spielman, chief inspector, Ofsted With ‘inadequate’ verdicts fatally undermining many FE providers, the stakes have never been higher on Ofsted inspections. The new… Nick Linford 8y Nick Linford 8y Newer 1 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 813 Older 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 1w Jessica Hill 1w 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
