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Party politics worry over new quality mark

Senior FE and skills figures have told of their concerns that the sector’s new chartered status quality mark could…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Bosses face apprentice bill of up to £9k

Providers could receive up to £27,000 for every apprentice they train — but £9,000 of that cash would have…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Two providers keep EFA contracts despite grade 4s

Two out of eight providers hit with an Ofsted grade four rating since February last year have been allowed…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Esol hold-up welcomed amid new qual concerns

The extension of existing funding rules and postponement of new qualifications for English for Speakers of Other Languages (Esol)…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Scores of colleges ‘interested’ in career college opportunities

More than 40 colleges have expressed an interest in opening a Career College since proposals for the new form…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Principal vows to protect learners from strike

The principal of Lambeth College has vowed to protect learners from an indefinite strike planned this week — but…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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New apprentice funding model ‘no simple system’

The newly-announced apprenticeship funding system in which employers will contribute 33 per cent of the cash has been described…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Ofsted calls time on privatised inspection regime for FE and schools

Ofsted inspections of FE and skills providers and schools will no longer be carried out by private contractors from…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Employers to fork out for a third of apprenticeship training as government tells bosses to pay providers for first time

Employers will be expected to pay a third of the provider costs for apprenticeship, it was announced today. The…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Bradford College goes internal for new chief after Bravo move blow

Bradford College Group has gone internal in its hunt for a new chief executive after Hampshire principal Anthony Bravo…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Get hands-on with careers advice, says AoC research

Young people want more hands-on experience in deciding what career path they should take, according to new research from the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Lambeth College staff vote to walk out indefinitely

Staff at Lambeth College have voted to go on indefinite strike in a row over proposed changes to terms…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

Must read

Colleges, 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
Billy Camden
Politics

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
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

National apprenticeship achievement rate rises to 54%

Slight increase leaves sector way off government target

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

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
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

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
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, Politics

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
Billy Camden