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Further education learners and staff to take the cuts protest to MPs’ front door at Parliament

FE staff and students are set to lobby politicians directly tomorrow afternoon as they take the fight against swingeing sector…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Tax expert and public private relationships adviser to take reins at 157 Group

The new chief executive of the 157 Group is to be Ian Pretty, currently a senior vice president for…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

UTCs team to ‘work with’ Boles on programme

The organisation behind Lord Baker’s university technical colleges (UTCs) has said it will be “working with” Skills Minister Nick…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Is England set to go Dutch on skills system?

Super colleges and beefed-up sector skills councils could be on the horizon — if Skills Minister Nick Boles’s hopes…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Let’s work together on 16 to 19s, FE leaders tell local councils

Sector leaders have said they are keen to work with local authorities on improving 16 to 19 participation and…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Apprentice recruitment halted over funding delay

Providers hit with an unexpected and “agonising wait” to find out if they will be paid for apprenticeships and…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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MPs pitch for chair posts on FE committees

Nominations have closed, and the race to chair two of Parliament’s most influential select committees is almost over. Labour…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Burnham backlash over apprentice loans worries

Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham sparked an alarmed response on Twitter after his comments on apprenticeship loans led to…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Enterprise bill to protect term ‘apprenticeship’ and force public bodies to recruit

Apprenticeships will be given the same legal protection as degrees, allowing a clampdown on firms which misuse the term,…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Principal and vocational teaching leader Frank McLoughlin leads FE & skills pack in Queen’s Birthday honours with knighthood

City and Islington College principal and chair of the Commission on Adult Vocational Teaching and Learning (Cavtl) Frank McLoughlin has…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Former North Hertfordshire College principal Fintan Donohue denies knowledge of success rates manipulation

Former North Hertfordshire College (NHC) principal Fintan Donohue has denied any “knowledge of wrongdoing” after it was discovered that…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Productivity ‘in danger’ from government’s 3m apprenticeships aim

The government target to create 3m apprenticeship starts could pose “a real danger” to national productivity, National Institute of…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford

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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
Long read, Prison education

The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release

‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
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