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Post-16 funding implication will be examined for summer-born change

The impact on post-16 funding of plans to allow summer-born children to enter reception after their fifth birthday will be examined…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Topslice offenders threatened with funding suspension

Providers that flout rules on revealing how much they topslice when subcontracting have been given a November 23 deadline…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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OCR exam board chief Mark Dawe resigns

The chief executive of one of the country’s leading awarding organisations has resigned, it was announced today. Mark Dawe,…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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FE Choices website set to close after three-and-a-half years

The FE Choices website is to shut next month after three-and-a-half years, it was revealed by the Skills Funding…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Post-16 area review plans geared at FE and sixth form colleges dismissed as ‘fundamentally flawed’

Sector leaders have warned that the government’s post-16 education and training area review plans are “fundamentally flawed” because they…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Future of nearly 40 colleges in question as BIS and DfE reveals those facing area reviews

Twenty two general FE colleges will be involved in the first round of post-16 education and training area reviews…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Government apprenticeship reform adviser Doug Richard charged with child sex offences

Government apprenticeship reform adviser and former BBC Dragons’ Den investor Doug Richard has been charged with sexual activity with…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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New quality and access to apprenticeship fund proposed by Niace

The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) has called for a new fund to help improve the quality and…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Colleges’ free school hopes dashed by DfE rejection

Two general FE colleges have had their free school plans thrown out by the Department for Education (DfE), FE…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Edition 145: Movers & Shakers

Among the country’s colleges, independent learning providers and other skills bodies, at least 14 have welcomed new leaders for…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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New adult and community learning boss Pember facing a mixed performance picture

With former government FE and skills boss Dr Sue Pember now installed at the helm of adult and community…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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College sector sees ‘unique’ step of registering as Trailblazer assessor

Leicester College has branched out from simply delivering apprenticeships in a college sector first by taking the “unique” step…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

Must read

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
Long read, Prison education

The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release

‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, FE Commissioner

Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal

Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel