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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
FE Week Reporter
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‘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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter


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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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….

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FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter

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Colleges, 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
Billy Camden
Politics

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
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

National apprenticeship achievement rate rises to 54%

Slight increase leaves sector way off government target

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

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
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

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
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, Politics

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
Billy Camden