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Broken Boles promise leads to Trailblazer criticism

Skills Minister Nick Boles has broken his promise to the House of Commons Education Select Committee that there would…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Colleges to face merger bill in government’s far-reaching ‘area reviews’, leaked guidance reveals

Colleges will be expected to foot the bill for changes recommended during government-ordered area reviews or risk having their funding…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Six more FE colleges listed by EFA as ‘intending to deliver’ 14 to 16 provision

A further six general FE colleges have been listed by the Education Funding Agency (EFA) as intending to take…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Team UK comes in at seventh place at WorldSkills 2015

TeamUK finished in seventh place at this year’s WorldSkills competition, held in Brazil. The team took home three gold…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Sector skills councils merge — but ‘business as usual’ as both continue acting separately

The sector skills councils for health and for justice today announced their merger — but also said they would…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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‘Resit levy’ on schools should ease ‘extreme funding pressures’ on colleges, think tank report claims

Further education colleges struggling to cope with an influx of maths and English GCSE resit students should get extra…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Greenwich Community College to ‘merge into’ Bromley College of Further and Higher Education

Plans have been announced for struggling Greenwich Community College to “merge into” Bromley College of Further and Higher Education….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Former FE college principal named as chair of new steering group for adult skills funding reforms

A former principal of two colleges has been named as chair of a new steering group set up by…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Stockton-based FE college joins with independent learning provider after 18 months of talks

Stockton Riverside College has merged with independent learning provider (ILP) the NETA (formerly North East Training Association) Training Trust…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Apprenticeship levy consultation fails to include ‘critical issues’, says CBI

The UK’s leading employers’ organisation has criticised the government’s new apprenticeship levy consultation for failing to explore the cost…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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AELP questions sense of GCSE maths and English resits after fall in pass rate for 17-year-olds

The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has questioned the sense of forcing resits on learners who fail…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Number of young people not in education, employment or training falls again

Latest official statistics have shown the proportion of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) in the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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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