News

Breaking: Updated register of apprenticeship training providers published

The updated register of apprenticeship training providers has now been published. An extra 507 providers have been added by…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Exclusive: Providers finally successful in apprentice register applications

Hundreds of providers including a college from the nation’s second largest city, which largely missed out last time, have…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Just three new recruits for chartered status in six months

The Chartered Institution for FE has recruited just one new college and two independent training providers in the last…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

Lib Dems pledge to double businesses that hire apprentices

A pledge to double the number of businesses that hire apprentices has been announced by the Liberal Democrats, ahead…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Subsidised apprentice travel plan falls off Labour manifesto

A long-term pledge to cover the cost of apprentice travel has not made it into Labour’s final general election…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Colleges scrap merger plans less than 3 months after announced

Two colleges have scrapped merger plans less than three months after they were announced. Stanmore College and West Hertfordshire…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke


News

Breaking: Labour manifesto plans for FE and skills unveiled

Labour has unveiled its plans for the future of FE and skills in its official general election manifesto just…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Pay cut row at struggling north east college

Staff are understood to be facing up to 10 per cent pay cuts at a north east college with…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

C&G Group buys apprenticeship agency in effort to corner nuclear industry

The nation’s largest training provider to the UK civil nuclear industry has been bought out by the City &…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

Colleges not on apprenticeships’ register still advertising vacancies

High-profile colleges that failed to get onto the government’s new register of apprenticeship training providers the first time round…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Long-distance merger cleared despite council concerns

A controversial long-distance merger has been signed off by college governors, despite grave concerns from a London borough council….

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Costs in question after Labour apprentice pledge

The financial implications of Labour’s pledge to cover apprentices’ travel costs have been called into question, after the Conservatives…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord

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Colleges, Politics

Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’

The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund
Colleges, Long read

Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail

More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read

Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching

In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Young people

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
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Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE

A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
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