News Eight FE and skills ideas that ran out of steam — remember any of them? As the dawn of a new government with the possibility of a raft of new policies approaches, former FE… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Apprenticeships and careers advice key to Lib Dem youth unemployment plans, Clegg to reveal Apprenticeships and one-on-one careers advice will play a key role in Liberal Democrat plans to cut youth unemployment to… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News FE Commissioner launches city-wide review looking at merging Nottingham’s two biggest colleges The FE Commissioner has launched a city-wide review of vocational education in Nottingham which is looking at merging the… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Plea for an FE & skills lifeline Funding, change, workload and bureaucracy topped the list of concerns in the second annual FE Week sector survey. Worries… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News New lead sponsor for Skills Show revealed Vocational education charity the Edge Foundation is the new lead sponsor for the Skills Show, it has been announced…. Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Education and Training Foundation workforce survey highlights Functional Skills teacher recruitment problem A third of work-based learning providers are finding it difficult to recruit Functional Skills (FS) teachers, a survey by the… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Bank fines to fund 50k apprenticeships and traineeships for unemployed 22 to 24-year-olds under Tories A Conservative-led government would use a £200m fund from bank fines issued in the wake of the Libor scandal… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Extra freedoms for FE ‘limited’, claims 157 Group report Delivery of extra freedoms for the FE sector has been “limited” despite being central to government policy for years,… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Takeover agreed for A4e to create ‘biggest’ Work Programme contractor Welfare-to-work provider A4e has been sold to recruitment services firm Staffline in a £35.4m deal that includes £11m of… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Euro ‘funding gap’ warning of closures and staff lay-offs The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has warned that a “funding gap” for schemes backed by European… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Trailblazer status in balance after grade four result An employer provider’s status as an apprenticeship Trailblazer was today in the balance after Ofsted found it had “no… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Shakira hopes to inspire minority groups with NUS election win The newly-elected National Union of Students (NUS) vice president for FE Shakira Martin (pictured above left) has told of her… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Newer 1 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 812 Older Must read 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 4d Jessica Hill 4d 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 4w Jessica Hill 4w 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
