News ‘Don’t spend Bursary Fund cash on FE free meals top-up’ — DfE Officials at the Department for Education (DfE) have told providers they can’t top up FE free meals allocations with… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News SFA’s £30.4m grant clears K College advances debt Debts at the defunct K College were cleared after the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) dished out a £30.4m grant,… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News No tracking of traineeship job outcomes The government has admitted it did not ask providers to keep a record of whether traineeships resulted in learners… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News DfE gives colleges school data access to remove young learners’ hurdle A major stumbling block holding up colleges looking to take on 14 and 15-year-old learners has been addressed by… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News 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… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News 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… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News 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…. FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News 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… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News 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… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News 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… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News 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… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News 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… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Newer 1 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 750 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 3w Billy Camden 3w 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
