News Confusion as official websites return different apprenticeship results Concerns that two official apprenticeship websites could be causing confusion have emerged with identical vacancy searches returning vastly different… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Principal says borrowing to blame for finances issue A Basingstoke sixth form college was today expected to present a draft financial recovery plan to the Education Funding… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Value for money question on Gazelle spending ‘answered by memberships’ Gazelle chief executive Fintan Donohue has said that it’s for to colleges to decide if his organisation delivered value… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Certificate conman gets 80 hours’ unpaid work An online conman who sold fake City & Guilds and OCR certificates from his Darlington cul-de-sac home has been… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News UPDATED: Indefinite strike woes set to hit for second time in a year UPDATE – Monday, January 19, 2015 A drawn-out strike could be averted and one of the most long running… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Internet block on LGBT websites ‘sends out wrong message’ A Midland college has been warned its internet software was sending out the “wrong message” after it blocked learners… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News FE colleges get £700k windfall for higher ed collaboration More than £700,000 will be handed shared among 74 FE colleges to encourage young people to progress into higher… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Local authority one of just three to win a glowing Ofsted report A Midland council is celebrating after its adult education provision was rated outstanding across the board by Ofsted. Wolverhampton… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Finance directors targeted in scam College finance directors have been targeted in a bailiff scam involving a chilling “long series” of phonecalls with the… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Apprenticeship reforms ‘not in long grass’ — Boles Skills Minister Nick Boles denied apprenticeship reforms had been “kicked into the long grass” after the government went back… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Cameron hits the roof The Prime Minister reached new heights when he visited a Nottingham provider to find out more about apprenticeships, writes… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News SFA apologises for shock clawback warning that caused ‘sleepless nights’ for provider staff Skills Funding Agency (SFA) director Keith Smith (pictured) has apologised to providers about a shock clawback warning that caused “sleepless… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y Newer 1 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 750 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