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Baker in ‘no Neets’ plea as youth job hopes take centre stage

The number of jobless young people is as its lowest level in five years, but at the Youth Employment…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Twitter row principal calls off CEO move

A Hampshire principal caught up in a Twitter row in which BBC presenter Jeremy Clarkson was labelled a c***…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Commissioner claims first scalp

The FE Commissioner has claimed his first scalp with LeSoCo principal Maxine Room standing down at the end of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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College bursary roll-overs stopped

Colleges are to be stopped from rolling unspent 16 to 19 bursary money of more than £500 over into…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Free school meal pay-outs leave colleges feeling short-changed

Colleges claim they have been left short-changed after learning how much money they will receive to pay for the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Former BIS chief in governance warning

The former head of skills investment at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Bis) has warned that entrepreneurial…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Providers in dark about job status of learners

More than half of providers are failing to meet targets for collecting data about the employment status of their…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Learner lie-ins as college trials 10am starts

Fancy a 10am start at work? Most would, and that’s what learners at North East Surrey College of Technology…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Bright storm continues as Highfield hits back

An awarding organisation has hit back at claims by Bright Assessing chief executive Krissy Charles-Jones about its qualifications. She…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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New alliance aims to help colleges recruit better governors

A new organisation has been launched today to encourage high-calibre and skilled people to join college governing bodies. The…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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LeSoCo principal Maxine Room to stand down

The principal of LeSoCo in south east London is to stand down at the end of the academic year,…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Governors get three-point college improvement plan

College governors have been given a three-point improvement plan in a joint 157 Group and Ofsted report on good practice…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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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