News SFA contract joy as safeguarding ‘glitches’ disappear An independent learning provider that faced losing its Skills Funding Agency (SFA) contract after an Ofsted inadequate rating over… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Lep boss tight-lipped on merger reviews funding issue Council and business leaders have remained tight-lipped over financial support for college mergers as the FE sector continues to… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Post-GCSE maths quals rolled out Pilot qualifications in post-GCSE maths that were launched late last year have been fully rolled out by the Department… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Broken Boles promise leads to Trailblazer criticism Skills Minister Nick Boles has broken his promise to the House of Commons Education Select Committee that there would… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Colleges to face merger bill in government’s far-reaching ‘area reviews’, leaked guidance reveals Colleges will be expected to foot the bill for changes recommended during government-ordered area reviews or risk having their funding… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Six more FE colleges listed by EFA as ‘intending to deliver’ 14 to 16 provision A further six general FE colleges have been listed by the Education Funding Agency (EFA) as intending to take… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Team UK comes in at seventh place at WorldSkills 2015 TeamUK finished in seventh place at this year’s WorldSkills competition, held in Brazil. The team took home three gold… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Sector skills councils merge — but ‘business as usual’ as both continue acting separately The sector skills councils for health and for justice today announced their merger — but also said they would… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News ‘Resit levy’ on schools should ease ‘extreme funding pressures’ on colleges, think tank report claims Further education colleges struggling to cope with an influx of maths and English GCSE resit students should get extra… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Greenwich Community College to ‘merge into’ Bromley College of Further and Higher Education Plans have been announced for struggling Greenwich Community College to “merge into” Bromley College of Further and Higher Education…. FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Former FE college principal named as chair of new steering group for adult skills funding reforms A former principal of two colleges has been named as chair of a new steering group set up by… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Stockton-based FE college joins with independent learning provider after 18 months of talks Stockton Riverside College has merged with independent learning provider (ILP) the NETA (formerly North East Training Association) Training Trust… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Newer 1 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 803 Older Must read Colleges Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying… Anviksha Patel 3w Anviksha Patel 3w T Levels NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 1mo Josh Mellor 1mo Next 3 stories Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps Exclusive Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden and Frances Read 2mo Apprenticeships Entrepreneur chased for millions after apprenticeship collapse ESFA uncovers ‘fake’ taxi apprentices as liquidator reveals intercompany payments days after firm decided to shut Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Adult education Exclusive Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo