News Threefold increase in £200k-plus principal posts The number of colleges paying out upwards of £200k on their principal posts rocketed threefold last academic year, FE… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Labour plan face-to-face careers advice for all teenagers to include ‘high quality apprenticeship’ guidance Sector leaders have welcomed Labour plans announced today to give every teenager face-to-face careers advice — including guidance on… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Slapped wrists for Ucas after breach of electronic marketing rules by ‘wrongly’ signing college learners up for advertising Learners who used the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) to apply for higher education courses at FE colleges… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Provider hit with grade four rating after just one apprenticeship achievement in two years An independent learning provider that has seen just one learner achieve an apprenticeship since it started running the programme almost… Nick Linford 9y Nick Linford 9y News SFA relaxes traineeship subcontractor rules while DWP ‘increases access’ for young JSA claimants The Skills Funding Agency has relaxed its rules on new traineeship subcontracting to allow all grade three-rated and non-inspected… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News New toolkit launched to help FE providers comply with rules on radicalisation A toolkit aimed at helping colleges and independent learning providers comply with new government rules on preventing radicalisation has been… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Colleges defend subcontracting agreements with ‘cult’ school chain Two FE colleges have defended their dealings with a religious school chain denounced as a “cult” by former members and… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Lewisham Southwark College gets two-inadequates-in-a-row first as pace of improvement criticised Lewisham Southwark College has been given the ignominious honour of becoming the first FE and skills provider to be branded… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News AoC demands investigation by MPs after review reveals 37 per cent starts success in £340m employer ownership of skills pilot The Association of Colleges (AoC) has demanded an inquiry by MPs in the next Parliament into a “waste of… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Ex-A4e workers jailed over £300k taxpayer fraud Five former A4e workers have been jailed for their parts in a back-to-work scheme fraud that cost the taxpayer nearly… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Dr Lynne Sedgmore to become FE and skills’ first Poet Laureate *** Hands up if you fell for it? Yes, this was our April Fool’s Day 2015 prank story, and… Nick Linford 9y Nick Linford 9y News Government response to sixth form college VAT campaign on Parliament dissolution day branded ‘cynical’ The Government has been branded “cynical” by the Sixth Form Colleges’ Association (SFCA) after responding to a long-running campaign… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y Newer 1 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 591 592 751 Older Must read Colleges, Long read Long read Resilient Ricketts: How Brooklands was saved from going broke The story of a college’s fight for survival after a subcontracting scandal left it on the brink of insolvency Billy Camden 4w Billy Camden 4w Politics Exclusive Exit interview: Why Robert Halfon quit ‘the best job in government’ Halfon tells FE Week he ‘did all he could’ after leaving skills minister role Shane Chowen 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo Apprenticeships National apprenticeship achievement rate rises to 54% Slight increase leaves sector way off government target Billy Camden 1mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 1mo Next 3 stories Apprenticeships Exclusive Apprenticeship growth pilot cash would reach just 15 ITPs Providers need to start at least 15 apprentices on the chosen standards to be eligible for extra funding Shane Chowen 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo Apprenticeships Exclusive Treasury announces £3k top-up for 13 ‘growth sector’ apprenticeships Training providers will have to deliver a minimum number of starts to access the cash Shane Chowen 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive DfE set to surrender £60m apprenticeship cash in 2023-24 Just 2% of total ring-fenced budget expected to be handed back to Treasury Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo
