News Fetl focus on third sector challenges The Further Education Trust for Leadership (Fetl) has handed fellowship grants, worth up to £40,000 each, to four senior… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News President Atkins reveals concern over falling performance Association of Colleges (AoC) president Richard Atkins has told of his concern at in depth research by FE Week… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Pressure mounts for Labour 16 to 19 ringfence policy The pressure is mounting on Labour to reveal whether it would introduce an FE and skills funding ringfence after… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Mikaela on road to photography success Stoke-on-Trent College learner Mikaela Mae Cobby is the winner of this year’s FE Week and Me Photography Competition. The… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News ‘No gap’ assurance amid ESF funding delay concerns The European Commission and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have vowed there will be no gap in… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News SFA review clears college The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has cleared a London college of any wrong-doing over a £4.1m budget black hole… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News High-profile BBC host for FE Week apprentice event BBC Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark has been unveiled as host of the FE Week Annual Apprenticeship Conference next month…. FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Principal’s defence on tables data A principal has defended her University Technical College (UTC) after it came in dramatically below other institutions in official… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News City & Guilds makes Oxford provider move Awarding organisation City & Guilds has announced its acquisition of privately-funded independent learning provider The Oxford Group. It said… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News SFA to fund non-QCF quals as Ofqual begins to remove controversial framework The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has announced it will fund courses which do not fit with the qualifications and credit framework (QCF) as… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Funding for 16 and 17-year-olds to remain at £4,000 in 2015/16, EFA confirms The funding rate for 16 and 17-year-old learners will remain at £4,000, the Education Funding Agency (EFA) has confirmed…. FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News FE Week and Me Photography Competition: And the winner is… The winner of the FE Week and Me Photography Competition (in partnership with NCFE) has spoken of her surprise… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y Newer 1 594 595 596 597 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 750 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 3w Billy Camden 3w 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 4w Shane Chowen 4w 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