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‘Cold spot’ careers guidance cash gets frosty ILP reception

The Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) is in hot water for expecting independent learning providers (ILPs) — but not…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Fetl symposium looks to the future of FE and skills

The “perfect storm” of challenges facing the sector is, according to Association of Colleges (AoC) chief executive Martin Doel,…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Providers warned of ‘significant financial penalties’ through Euro procurement rule

Providers that fall foul of new European procurement rules affecting exam fees could face “significant financial penalties” if High…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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FE Commissioner ends work at Lancashire Adult Learning and Stratford Upon Avon College

Further Education Commissioner Dr David Collins (pictured above) has ended his involvement at two more FE and skills providers….

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Council votes for wider area review recognising school sixth forms and independent learning providers

A council has voted to carry out its own post-16 education review to ensure school sixth forms and independent…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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‘Save adult education’ petition signed by over 10,000 delivered to home of Prime Minister

A petition signed by more than 10,000 people that called on the government to “stop further funding cuts to…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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UTCs ‘do work colleges have done for years’ hears House of Lords committee

University Technical Colleges (UTCs) have been criticised in front of a Lords committee for stepping in where “colleges could…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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DfE to go public with subcontracted student numbers for first time

The Department for Education (DfE) will publish information on subcontracted student numbers for the first time at the end…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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LGA calls for exemption from apprenticeship levy for local councils

Local authorities should be excluded from the large employers’ apprenticeship levy, according to proposals put forward by the Local…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Negotiations over AoC pay freeze fail as UCU sticks to strike threat

The threat of strike action was today hanging over the FE sector as talks between the Association of Colleges…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Further education and skills sector misses out on £250m in FE loans cash

Shadow Skills Minister Gordon Marsden has called on the government to “get a grip” after new figures showed that…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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‘Next few months critical’ for Birmingham Metropolitan College says Skills Minister Nick Boles as FE Commissioner attacks past financial performance

A cash-strapped Midland college’s past financial management has been branded “not acceptable” as Skills Minister Nick Boles told it…

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