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 News Breaking: SFA unveils ‘mystery shopper’ scheme to test how ready providers are for apprenticeship reforms The Skills Funding Agency has launched a new “mystery shopper” scheme to find out how prepared providers are for… Paul Offord 9y Paul Offord 9y News Budget 2017: Sector hails Hammond’s ‘breakthrough budget’ for skills Today’s spring budget has been hailed as a “breakthrough budget for skills” as chancellor Philip Hammond confirmed major extra… Paul Offord 9y Paul Offord 9y News Levy confusion: Final SFA apprenticeship allocation meeting cancelled A key meeting that the Skills Funding Agency was supposed to hold today, to reach final decisions on which… Paul Offord 9y Paul Offord 9y News National Apprenticeship Week 2017: More than 10,000 back world record attempt through giant careers advice assembly More than 10,000 young people joined-in for a giant careers advice assembly, through a world record attempt for National… Billy Camden 9y Billy Camden 9y News BREAKING: FE champion Shakira Martin standing for NUS president The top job at the National Union of Students is in the sights of Shakira Martin, currently vice president… Paul Offord 9y Paul Offord 9y News Exclusive: Third largest awarding organisation pulls out of apprenticeship market Awarding giant OCR has delivered a major blow to the government’s reforms programme by pulling out of delivering final… Jude Burke 9y Jude Burke 9y News Making sense of the plans for T-Levels As reported in FE Week yesterday, the Budget on Wednesday will announce new money for technical education to fund… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Chancellor to announce ‘over £500m’ per year in extra funding for post-16 skills reform The Budget will invest new funding in FE from 2019 to pay for increasing the amount of training for 16 to 19-year-olds… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y Newer 1 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 845 Older Must read Colleges, Long read Exclusive 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 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo 16-19 Long read 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo News 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 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo Next 3 stories Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 3mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 3mo 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 4mo Shane Chowen 4mo 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 5mo Anviksha Patel 5mo