News Commissioner in FE funding support call The government should look at shifting schools funding to colleges as they struggle to cope with more learners re-sitting… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Outstanding across the board Two independent learning providers (ILPs), one offering IT and accountancy apprenticeships and the other training the nation’s future tennis… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Engage with colleges, Wilshaw tells employers Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw has challenged employers to engage more with colleges in an effort to bridge the… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Lambeth College walkout Staff at Lambeth College have voted in favour of a new walkout over employment contracts — just six months… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Sector stumps up £11k for charity at conference auction More than £11,000 was raised for the Helena Kennedy Foundation at the FE Week annual charity auction. The great… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Boles in FE loans expansion hint in digital skills hearing Skills Minister Nick Boles has hinted that the FE loans system was heading for expansion — as the sector… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News ETF reviews maths and English The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) is to review teaching and accreditation of maths and English for learners unable… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Colleges should lead skills gap charge Colleges need to “face up to their responsibilities” and make FE the sector one that “gets people into work,”… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Beacons of the sector Fourteen FE colleges were winners at the Beacon Awards, They were announced at the Association of Colleges (AoC) conference… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Thinktank calls for policy road map for digital techonology The FE sector needs a “policy roadmap” to ensure best use of digital technology, a report launched last week… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Leps Network chair warns of closure after over-worked chief executive resigns amid lack of resources The organisation that oversees the work of Local Enterprise Partnerships (Leps) is in crisis following the resignation of its… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Traineeship ‘evolution’ announced as Boles rejects new funding system plan Plans for a new traineeship funding system, in which providers could be paid based on learner job outcomes for… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y Newer 1 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 618 750 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 4w Billy Camden 4w 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
