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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
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New uni system in place for HE in FE learners

General FE colleges are hoping fears they could be overwhelmed with higher education gripes prove unfounded as they start…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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SFA contract joy as safeguarding ‘glitches’ disappear

An independent learning provider that faced losing its Skills Funding Agency (SFA) contract after an Ofsted inadequate rating over…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Lep boss tight-lipped on merger reviews funding issue

Council and business leaders have remained tight-lipped over financial support for college mergers as the FE sector continues to…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

Must read

16-19

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

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