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 9y Paul Offord 9y 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 9y Paul Offord 9y 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 9y FE Week Reporter 9y 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 9y Alix Robertson 9y 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 9y Paul Offord 9y 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 9y Billy Camden 9y 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 9y Alix Robertson 9y 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 9y Jude Burke 9y 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 9y Jude Burke 9y 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 9y Billy Camden 9y 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 9y Billy Camden 9y 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 9y Alix Robertson 9y Newer 1 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 829 Older Must read Qualifications Exclusive Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels Shane Chowen 2w Shane Chowen 2w Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo 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 6mo Billy Camden 6mo
