News Predictability plea as just 15 pc affected after clawback warning The Association of Colleges (AoC) has supported Skills Funding Agency plans to make its funding system more “predictable” after… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News ‘Careers advisers who don’t promote apprenticeships should be fired’ Failure to promote apprenticeships and traineeships should result in the sack for careers advisers, House of Commons Education Select… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Teen confronts politicians over sixth form college VAT A 17-year-old learner put School Reform Minister Nick Gibb and Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt on the spot as… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News BIS issues new list of named and shamed underpaying bosses Apprenticeship employers were among the latest round of offenders named and shamed for failing to pay the national minimum… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Apprentices’ ‘measly’ 2.6pc min wage rise A proposed 2.6 per cent rise in the National Minimum Wage for apprentices has been branded “measly” by National… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Byrne gives 16 to 19 ringfence assurance Shadow Skills Minister Liam Byrne has pledged a Labour Government would not raid the 16 to 19 budget to… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Professor Wolf says more to be done on employer involvement Professor Alison Wolf has called for more to be done to involve employers in college assessment and delivery after… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News AoC chief calls on Labour to use tuition fee cut funding to benefit FE Labour should use extra funding pledged to reduce university tuition fees to help support the FE sector, Association of… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Sector chief tells of jobs fear as providers face 24pc funding cut Association of Colleges chief executive Martin Doel (pictured) has told of his fears that more job losses could be… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News FE Week launches 2015 survey — prizes on offer for your opinions It’s that time again! The second annual FE Week survey launches today with the aim of taking the sector’s… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Dr Lynne Sedgmore to step down from 157 Group executive director role Dr Lynne Sedgmore today announced plans to retire from her executive director’s role at the 157 Group later this year…. FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News FE Week launches 2015 survey — prizes on offer for your opinions Visit here to take part in the 2015 survey. It’s that time again! The second annual FE Week survey launches… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y Newer 1 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 749 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 2w Billy Camden 2w 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 3w Shane Chowen 3w Apprenticeships National apprenticeship achievement rate rises to 54% Slight increase leaves sector way off government target Billy Camden 4w Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 4w 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo 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