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As you are for Labour FE

Labour’s top education and business teams have emerged from a post-election mini-reshuffle identical to their pre-election make-up. Acting Labour…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Question marks hover over BIS future

Concerns about the future of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) may spark an investigation by a…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Priory ordered to leave Trailblazer group

Priory Central Services has been ordered to leave the healthcare employers’ Trailblazer group after it was hit with a…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Hundreds of Yorkshire colleges’ jobs set for axe

More than 200 college jobs are facing the axe in West Yorkshire in a bid by management at Leeds…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Race is on for 3m apprenticeships

Apprenticeship target a ‘significant challenge’ The creation of 3m apprenticeships by 2020 is a “significant challenge” that can only be achieved…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Javid — will he be Treasury stooge or FE friend?

Prime Minister David Cameron has appointed the Conservative MP Sajid Javid (pictured) as Business Secretary in his new majority…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna withdraws from Labour leadership race

Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna has dropped his bid to run the Labour Party, citing the “scrutiny and attention”…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Full report on FE Week and Policy Consortium second annual sector survey released

The full report on the results of the second annual FE Week and Policy Consortium survey has been published. The…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Workload and constant change driving up stress

Working in FE today is more stressful than at any point in the last six years due to workloads…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Former college tutor jailed for ‘horrific’ animal cruelty

*WARNING – CONTAINS IMAGE OF DOG INJURIES A former Canterbury College tutor has been jailed for animal cruelty after…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Pearson stops certificating higher education course at general FE college over grading and enrolment concerns

Pearson has stopped certificating a higher education course at Sussex Coast College Hastings (pictured) because of concerns over a…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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FE leaders welcome new Business Secretary Javid’s ‘experience’ of sector

Sector leaders have welcomed Sajid Javid’s “experience” of FE after David Cameron announced he would take over as Business…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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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
Adult education, ITPs

Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers

Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps

Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps

Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Frances Read