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Apprenticeship starts up after two years of decline

Official figures released this morning show the number of apprenticeship starts for 2014/15 was up by 59,500 from the…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Long wait for FE Chartered Status membership ends

The long wait for FE providers to sign up for Chartered Status ended today with applications for membership finally…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Labour MPs secure Opposition Day debate to call for 16 to 19 budget protection

Labour has secured an Opposition Day debate to propose that the 16 to 19 education budget be given the same…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Don’t let private training providers ‘steal your lunch’, Skills Minister Nick Boles tells college leaders

Skills Minister Nick Boles has told Association of Colleges (AoC) conference delegates to stop letting private providers “nick your…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Live with Linford at AoC Conference 2015

Nick Linford, founder and former editor of FE Week, is out-and-about during AoC Conference 2015 bringing you all the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Ten-point plan for apprenticeship success laid out by government official Jennifer Coupland

A ten-point plan to help deliver the government’s 3m apprenticeships target has been issued by senior apprenticeship official Jennifer…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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College mergers on cards in Shrewsbury and East London

Two further mergers have been proposed for the college sector. Shrewsbury College, Shrewsbury Sixth Form College and New College…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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‘Remarkable how colleges have kept going’ says AoC chief Martin Doel

Ahead of the Association of Colleges (AoC) 2015 conference, chief executive Martin Doel tells FE Week reporter Alix Robertson…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

Concern at ‘tight’ 18-month ESF delivery timescale

Sector leaders have reacted with concern to a “tight” Skills Funding Agency (SFA) timetable for handing out £650m of…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Future of Fisss uncertain as BIS plans new system for apprenticeship certificates

The future of the Federation for Industry Sector Skills and Standards (Fisss) was today uncertain with the government looking…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Sixth Form College Commissioner Peter Mucklow shares area review load with new advisers

These are some of the faces in Sixth Form College Commissioner Peter Mucklow’s new team as he shares the…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Professor Brian Cox on hand for £20m new Middlesbrough College Stem centre

Celebrity Professor Brian Cox was guest of honour at Middlesbrough College to open a new £20m science, technology, engineering…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford

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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
Colleges, Long read

Alun Francis, chair of the Social Mobility Commission

Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill