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Post-Brexit views from delegates

An FE Week Twitter poll on the opening day of the AELP conference asked whether Skills Minister Nick Boles…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Ward Warning – get data right else face funding clawback

The Skills Funding Agency has written to all colleges and independent learning providers to make sure they are aware…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Joy as Joyce vows no two-tier Ofsted regime

There will be no special treatment for employers which become providers in order to use their apprenticeship levy funding,…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Martin Doel: ‘FE providers mustn’t slag each other off’

The outgoing boss of the Association of Colleges has launched into a plea for sector unity — after warning…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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*Exclusive* Cornwall College principal Amarjit Basi resigns

The principal of Cornwall College has resigned, according to a statement from the chair of the board of governors…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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NCG first college granted full taught-degree awarded powers

NCG (formerly Newcastle College Group) is the first FE institution in the country to be authorised to develop and…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord


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Clean sweep of notices of concern for Telford College of Arts and Technology

A college that recently tumbled from good to inadequate has become the first to have a clean sweep of…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Incoming Ofsted chief at pains to soothe FE sector

Ofsted’s new chief inspector has pledged to remove the “blanket of concern” over FE that many believe have been…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Angela Rayner appointed as third shadow education secretary in a week

Angela Rayner, the MP for Ashton-under-Lyme and a former care worker and union representative, has been appointed the new…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Marsden tackles Boles on traineeships fudge

The government risks “failing” a generation by mishandling its traineeship scheme, shadow skills minister Gordon Marsden, (pictured) has said….

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Fears private sector will ‘asset strip’ colleges

The FE sector could be facing a “fire sale” of FE colleges, according to shadow skills minister Gordon Marsden,…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Hackney mayor named as deputy mayor for planning, regeneration & skills

The mayor of Hackney has been appointed by London mayor Sadiq Khan as his deputy for planning, regeneration and…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson

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Qualifications

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
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, 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
Jessica Hill
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
Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

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
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden