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Leadership thinktank launches £50K future-gazing fellowships

A new FE leadership thinktank set up by former Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) chair Dame Ruth Silver…

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Hub breaks down on ILR data deadline day

Providers trying to submit information for the first individualised learner record (ILR) return of the academic year faced software…

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Failure warning as ‘less than half’ of traineeship providers deliver starts

The Department for Education (DfE) has “failed” to manage providers operating its traineeship programme, a senior MP has claimed….

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Leps need more responsibility and funding to deliver on digital skills, adult education chief tells Lords

Local enterprise partnerships (Leps) should be given more responsibility and funding to point learners in the direction of opportunities…

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Teen apprenticeship numbers could be hit by making employers pay, National Audit Office warns

Government plans to make employers pay for up to a third of the training for 16 to 18 apprenticeships…

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Police investigate after college website hacked to promote Islamic militants

A college website inadvertently gave its support to the militant group Islamic State (ISIS) after it was hacked, prompting…

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New awarding body steps in to certificate 500 of the more than 30,000 paying learners left stranded

A troubled provider which has been struggling to get courses certificated has been approved by a new awarding body…

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Colleges to step in as school plans to scrap its sixth form provision

Local colleges are ready to take on A-level students from a school sixth form set to close because of…

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FE Week Reporter
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The north continues to dominate as DfE release names of colleges that can recruit full-time 14 to 15-year-olds

A further nine colleges have been given permission to recruit full-time 14 to 15-year-olds this September, the second year…

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Skills Minister speaks at ceremony launching first new FE college for over 20 years

Skills Minister Nick Boles visited Essex to mark the “milestone” transformation of Prospects Learning Foundation in to the first…

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FE Week Reporter
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Sector concern after Skills Funding Agency list a further 174 qualifications facing the axe

The government has been warned by FE sector leaders against making “simplistic decisions” that could limit funding to qualifications for…

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Math teacher training fund divides opinion after colleges with notice of financial concern are barred

A new maths teacher training fund which will exclude the most cash-strapped colleges doesn’t add up, according to the…

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