News Five colleges announce ‘collaboration’ plans after pioneering area review Five FE and sixth form colleges facing “significant financial challenges” are “actively considering” collaboration plans, following a pioneering review… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Boles tasks Education and Training Foundation with functional skills ‘reform programme’ The Education and Training Foundation has been asked to draw up a “programme of reform” for functional skills qualifications,… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Additional adult skills cuts account for just 13 per cent of required BIS savings Further cuts to college budgets will account for just 13 per cent of extra savings needed at the Department… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News BIS committee announces inquiry into government Productivity Plan The government’s Productivity Plan will be the first focus of the new business, innovation and skills (BIS) select committee,… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News SFA confirms further 3.9 per cent ASB cut as in-year departmental savings bite FE providers face a further cut of almost four per cent to their non-apprenticeship funding in 2015/16, the Skills… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Colleges claw-back warning after audit reveals SFA may have wrongly paid out £50m Almost £50m of funding may have been wrongly paid out by the Skills Funding Agency last financial year and… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Sixth Form Commissioner warns of large-scale mergers for sixth from college Large-scale mergers may be needed among sixth form colleges (SFCs) to cope with looming funding problems, Sixth Form Commissioner… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Police disperse overnight protest at Lewisham Southwark College led by NUS Protestors led by National Union of Students (NUS) vice president for FE Shakira Martin were dispersed by police after… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Ten things we’ve learned about the government’s post-16 education and training review The government has announced a national review of post-16 education and training, and admitted the number of general FE and… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News SFA criticised for failing to check ‘realism’ of ‘over-optimistic’ college financial forecasts A report out this morning by the National Audit Office (NAO) has criticised the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) for… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Government reveals college cull plans as it launches national review of post-16 education The government could cut the number of general FE and sixth form colleges in England in a bid to… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News City and Islington College and Westminster Kingsway College looking at merger City and Islington College and Westminster Kingsway College aim to become “the main force for FE in central London”… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Newer 1 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 829 Older Must read Qualifications Exclusive 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 2w Shane Chowen 2w Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Colleges, Long read 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo Long read, Prison education Long read 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 6mo Billy Camden 6mo
