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Frustration over ‘misleading’ Libor answer

The Shadow Skills Minister has been left frustrated with a “misleading” answer to a parliamentary question he lodged over…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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You must adapt to survive, SFA boss tells FE leaders

The chief executive of the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has warned providers that failing to adapt to changes in…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Principal blamed as college sent into administered status

The FE Commissioner has singled-out former principal Jacqui Mace (pictured) for failings at a London college that has been…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Treasury sets aside £560m for college restructures

> Plans leaked to FE Week reveal ‘facility’ at Treasury until April 2019 > AoC welcomes ‘necessary’ support for…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Hackney Community College and Tower Hamlets College set to merge in August

Hackney Community College and Tower Hamlets College have announced plans to merge from August this year. A spokesperson for…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Funding rate cut from April for popular apprenticeship framework

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) will reduce funding rates for the level three ‘IT, Software Web and Telecom Professionals’…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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Three-day Festival of Skills announced for staff in FE

An exciting new continuing professional development (CPD) event has been announced today by the organisers of The Telegraph Festival…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

MPs to probe apprenticeship quality concerns in new inquiry

Apprenticeship quality concerns will come under the spotlight in a new parliamentary inquiry that will check out the merits…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Lowestoft Sixth Form College hit with EFA financial notice to improve

Lowestoft Sixth Form College (SFC) has been issued with a financial notice to improve from the Education Funding Agency…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Sajid Javid seeks ‘more scrutiny’ of skills policy from influential group of MPs

Business Secretary Sajid Javid has said he would welcome “more scrutiny” on skills, as he suggested that the Business,…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

National skills body boss leaves for consultancy firm

Michael Davis, chief executive of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), has been appointed managing director of…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Principal predicts college numbers will fall to 200 by 2018

One college principal expects the number of colleges in England to drop by a third over the next two…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson

Must read

16-19

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE

A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Long read

Colleges on the frontline of a divided nation

As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill