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Back to the drawing board on merger as financial rescue plan rejected

A Hampshire sixth form college has had to go back to the drawing board in its search for a…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Skills Minister admits ‘no plans to promote new SFCs’

Skills Minister Nick Boles told the House of Commons the government has no intention of “promoting the establishment” of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Apprenticeship week keenness at Milton Keynes

Staff at Milton Keynes College were among thousands of sector workers up and down the country to have set…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Lords celebration for foundation learners

The success of nearly 90 learners helped by the Helena Kennedy Foundation to overcome a variety of obstacles was…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Complete the overhaul of apprenticeships, small businesses group tells parties

A challenge to complete the “overhaul” of apprenticeships is being put to the next government, as National Apprenticeship Week…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Develop ‘world class apprenticeships’ to tackle global productivity shortfall, report urges

World class apprenticeships should be developed to solve a “productivity shortfall”, the International Skills Standards Organisation (INSSO) has claimed….

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FE Week Reporter


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Hartlepool Sixth Form College focused on numbers over quality, commissioner finds

Hartlepool Sixth Form College focused too much on getting students through the doors and not of the quality of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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A4E up for sale

Welfare-to-work provider A4E, which in January saw several employees found guilty of fraud, has been put up for sale….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Clegg marks National Apprenticeship Week

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called on young people and employers to “get an apprenticeship” ahead of National…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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College governance challenge set to ‘intensify’ with 24 pc funding cut warns union as BIS concedes spending reductions’ ‘profound’ effect on boards

Next academic year’s 24 per cent FE funding cut will “intensify” the challenges faced by college governors, the University…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Local government thinktank’s ‘Heseltine-plus’ report calls for ‘abolition of the SFA’ and acknowledges FE representation on Lep boards an ‘urgent issue’

The abolition of the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) within just over a year has been proposed by a local…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Apprenticeships commission puts colleges forward as solution to schools’ vocational offer for ‘all’ 14 to 16-year-olds

All 14 to 16-year-olds should be able to study a vocational subject at school – and colleges could hold the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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Apprenticeships

National apprenticeship achievement rate rises to 54%

Slight increase leaves sector way off government target

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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

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Treasury announces £3k top-up for 13 ‘growth sector’ apprenticeships

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DfE set to surrender £60m apprenticeship cash in 2023-24

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