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Shock departure for Institute for Apprenticeships’ shadow chief executive

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has confirmed that Rachel Sandby-Thomas will be leaving her role as…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Guidance on restructuring fund applications published

Application guidance for the new funding pot to support the implementation of area review recommendations has been unveiled today….

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Money-saving claim disputed as BIS confirms ‘FE brain drain’ plans

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has claimed the decision confirmed today to close its Sheffield office…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
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Learning and Work Institute boss David Hughes will be new AoC chief executive

The Association of Colleges (AoC) has announced David Hughes as its new chief executive – just five months after…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Principal and deputy both leave troubled college

A principal who lodged a formal complaint with Ofsted after the education watchdog branded his college inadequate has stepped…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Breaking: Government announces second wave of apprenticeship frameworks to be switched off this year

The government has announced the second wave of apprenticeship frameworks that will be closed to new starts, with of total…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson


News

Lord Sugar returns to enterprise tsar role to drive recruitment for apprentices

Lord Sugar has accepted a second “enterprise tsar” role to encourage more young people onto apprenticeships — but this…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Exclusive: College considers union call for principal pay cut as job losses planned

The University and College Union (UCU) has called on Cornwall College Group principal Amarjit Basi to take a pay…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Brathay Challenge finalists to compete for apprentice team of year title unveiled

The finalists who will battle it out to be crowned apprentice team of the year in the fifth annual…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Skills Funding Agency demands answers from Nescot following FE Week probe

LATEST: Nescot accepts former £360k a year principal was unfairly dismissed The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has demanded an…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

Don’t ‘reinvent the wheel’ with ethnic minority work review

A prominent campaigner for more black and Asian college principals has warned against “reinventing the wheel” — after a…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

TPE review delayed again – this time until July

The findings of a hotly anticipated review into technical and professional education (TPE) have been hit by further delays…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

16-19

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
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
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
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
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