News First major principal leadership programme unveiled since LSIS closure A new FE principals’ leadership programme has been announced – backed with more than £1 million of government cash…. Jude Burke 9y Jude Burke 9y News Government decides to retain Applied General qualifications A serious blow has potentially been dealt to plans for a rigid post-16 divide between academic and vocational education,… Paul Offord 9y Paul Offord 9y News Exclusive Exclusive: DfE will scrap forced resits for GCSE English and maths The government will make a major u-turn over the much-derided condition of funding rule, FE Week can reveal. From August 2015… Paul Offord 9y Paul Offord 9y News Breaking: SFA and EFA merger confirmed and Lauener retiring The Skills and Education Funding Agencies are merging and Peter Lauener is stepping down as boss of both, the… Paul Offord 9y Paul Offord 9y News Whole FE sector backs #SaveOurAdultEducation campaign A who’s who of major FE organisations have thrown their support behind FE Week’s #SaveOurAdultEducation campaign. Big names on… Paul Offord 9y Paul Offord 9y News Training providers spend thousands on consultants to get on new apprenticeship register Consultants are raking in thousands of pounds writing bids for training providers desperate to make it onto the new… Paul Offord 9y Paul Offord 9y News London council unhappy with plans for local college to merge with group 300 miles away A London borough council is unhappy over a planned merger between a local college and a group whose headquarters… Jude Burke 9y Jude Burke 9y News Panel debates end-point assessment and RoATP Concerns about quality and the impact of reforms on social mobility dominated the panel debate of FE and skills… Gemma Gathercole 9y Gemma Gathercole 9y News Gordon Marsden lays out Labour’s FE policy objectives Labour would establish an official pre-apprenticeship programme, and support apprenticeships for care leavers, veterans and people with disabilities, according… FE Week 9y FE Week 9y News Editor Asks: Amanda Spielman, chief inspector, Ofsted With ‘inadequate’ verdicts fatally undermining many FE providers, the stakes have never been higher on Ofsted inspections. The new… Nick Linford 9y Nick Linford 9y News No growth projections for Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers There has been no modelling done by the Skills Funding Agency to predict how many providers will eventually end… Billy Camden 9y Billy Camden 9y News Apprenticeship providers warned not to sacrifice quality The “new apprenticeship system is the eBay of education” and “will drive down quality”, the boss of the Association… Alix Robertson 9y Alix Robertson 9y Newer 1 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 851 Older Must read Colleges, Politics Exclusive 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 2w Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund 2w Colleges, Long read Investigation 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo Next 3 stories Young people 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 5mo Shane Chowen 5mo 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 5mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 5mo
