News

Leadership and management questioned in new ETF survey results while non-GCSE English and maths review set for launch

Approval of FE sector leadership and management has declined since last year, according to the results of an Education…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Labour warned ‘hands off FE budget’ amid rumours Ed Miliband wants to cut maximum university fee by third

The Association of Colleges (AoC) has issued a plea to the Labour Party not to raid the FE budget…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Further education makes ‘500 most influential people list’ as 157 Group boss Dr Lynne Sedgmore is named by Debrett’s

The FE sector has had one of its key spokespeople recognised on the 2015 Debrett’s 500 list of the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Boles asked to clarify sixth form college VAT exemption talks

The Sixth Form Colleges’ Association (SFCA) has written to Skills Minister Nick Boles in a bid to clarify his…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

More college takeovers possible for academy chain

The Department for Education (DfE) has not ruled out another college intervention to take on a school from troubled…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Call for more powers to track 16 to 18s

Local authorities “need more legal powers to ensure partners share vital information” in tracking the education and training status…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


News

Leadership issues under the Fetl research spotlight

The Further Education Trust for Leadership (Fetl) has announced the four winners in its first wave of fellowship grants…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Digital skills duo told to drop Code College title

The founders of the new National College for Digital Skills have dropped plans to be called Code College after…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Outstanding RAF training

The RAF’s apprenticeship scheme has seen it become just the second employer provider to be rated outstanding across the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Lambeth retains grade three Ofsted rating despite strikes

Lambeth College has retained its grade three Ofsted rating despite inspectors visiting amid long-running industrial action that ended with…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

AoC hits back at ex-Ofsted director’s claim colleges are ‘frankly, rubbish’

Association of Colleges (AoC) boss Martin Doel (above) has leapt to the defence of his members after a former…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Planting seeds of inspiration in Sky

The Sky Academy invited FE Week reporter Paul Offord to look around its new Careers Lab that will give…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

Must read

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