News Exclusive Company shuts down just days before SFA gives them green light for apprenticeship delivery Update, November 1, 2017: The company has now confirmed to FE Week that it is continuing to operate, following… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Exclusive Colleges delivering hundreds of apprenticeships ‘surprised’ to be left off new provider register A number of major apprenticeship delivering colleges are “stunned”, “disappointed” and “frustrated” at not being on the new Register… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Breaking: SFA delays announcement of allocations for non-levy funding Allocation worth up to £440m for delivering apprenticeship training to non-levy employers have been delayed by the Skills Funding Agency,… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Breaking: Halfon sets out priorities for 2017-18 in skills funding letter Spending priorities for 2017-18 have been set out by minister Robert Halfon in the annual Skills Funding letter. The… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Breaking: Full Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers finally published Almost 75 per cent of applicants to the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers were successful, the Skills Funding Agency… FE Week Reporter 8y FE Week Reporter 8y News UTC joining college-backed multi academy trust after Ofsted blow Swindon’s university technical college will join the Activate Learning Education Trust, after being hit by an ‘inadequate’ grade in… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News Studio school to stop recruiting from 14 and become sixth form A former Ofsted ‘outstanding’ studio school has announced it will stop recruiting from age 14 and only offer provision… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Exclusive Government considers legislation change to protect learners with loans when providers go bust The government is considering a change in legislation to protect learners left in loans debt after their providers go… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Warm tributes paid to ‘doyenne’ of the employability and skills sector Janette Faherty Fond tributes have been paid to Janette Faherty OBE, a “doyenne” of the employability and skills sector who has died… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y 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 Newer 1 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 821 Older Must read Colleges, Long read Long read Colleges on the frontline of a divided nation As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica… Jessica Hill 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Billy Camden 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo
