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Lack of assessment organisations ‘disrespectful’ to apprentices

A former top skills civil servant has turned on “diabolical” government planners, after exclusive FE Week analysis showed there…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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MPs given clearest public indication yet of u-turn on apprenticeship funding cuts

Top skills mandarins have given the clearest public indication yet that they will reverse huge apprenticeship funding cuts exposed by…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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No approved assessment organisation for over half of new apprenticeships

Almost 60 per cent of apprenticeship standards cleared so far by the government for learner starts don’t have an…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Government set for u-turn on apprenticeships funding cuts

Controversial plans to slash apprenticeship funding rates for young people in deprived areas are set to be reconsidered by…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Commons debate request over funding cuts exposed by FE Week

A backbench House of Commons debate has been called for by David Lammy MP over drastic funding cuts exposed…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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EU students will be eligible for English FE loans in 2016/17

Students from the European Union who want to study with an English FE provider in 2017/18 will still be…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord


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FE Week campaign against apprenticeship funding cuts raised in Commons

Major cuts exposed by FE Week to apprenticeships funding for 16- to 18-year-olds in some of the most deprived…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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The unstoppable rise of management apprenticeships

Management is now the third most popular apprenticeship subject, and analysis by FE Week suggests it will rocket to…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Council forces students with special needs to pay over £600 in travel costs

One council’s controversial decision to make families of students with disabilities or special needs to pay for college transport…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Team UK prepares for EuroSkills with yoga, meditation and stress tests

Dozens of the nation’s most talented FE students found their zen as they prepared for the psychological strains of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Search begins for chair of the Institute for Apprenticeships

The hunt is on for the first permanent chair of the Institute for Apprenticeships, while potential candidates have been…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Fairness fears over college apprenticeship groups

Industry insiders fear that new apprenticeship college training groups could unfairly distort the market and divert government cash away…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson

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Colleges

Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal

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T Levels

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Adult education, ITPs

Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers

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Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps

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Entrepreneur chased for millions after apprenticeship collapse

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Adult education

Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets

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