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Employer jailed over tragic death of 16-year-old apprentice as SFA looks into ‘implications of case’

An employer has been jailed for eight months over the death of an untrained 16-year-old boy who became trapped…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Former Deputy PM Clegg reveals careers guidance was subject of ‘profound disagreement’ in Coalition

Former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg revealed a “profound disagreement” over careers advice at the top of the last…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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FE providers ‘design and deliver their own quals’ in proposed new ‘sub-degree’ technical skills system

A report out today calls for a new system of accrediting “sub-degree technical education” in which FE colleges and…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

SFA to close payment system for move to ‘new supplier’ making provider data deadline impossible

Providers offering Trailblazer apprenticeships are in a race against time to submit their learner numbers after the deadline shifted…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

FE college staff in the dark over potential impact of new strike laws

FE staff will have to wait to hear whether proposed new strike laws will affect them after the government…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Shadow Education Minister for Young People Woodcock on panel to look at ‘big questions’ over 3m apprenticeships target

Shadow Education Minister for Young People John Woodcock (pictured above) features among an FE and skills Parliamentary panel that…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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Are Lib Dems set for an FE college-educated leader?

The final votes in the contest to lead the Liberal Democrats were being cast today with the prospect of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Latest FE Commissioner reports bear enrolment warnings and precarious financial outlooks

The FE Commissioner has warned Redcar and Cleveland College that its “very risky” growth strategy has got just a…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Former Deputy PM Clegg could face BIS and DfE merger question in Lords committee grilling

Former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg could be grilled by Lords tomorrow morning on whether the Department for Education…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Local authority in Lewisham Southwark College takeover bid to address ‘lack of imagination and robustness’

Southwark Council has called on the FE Commissioner to support its bid take over half of Lewisham Southwark College,…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Job question yet to be decided as Niace and Inclusion reveal ‘strategic alliance’ to become full merger

The jobs future of staff at the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) and the Centre for Social…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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AoC issues ‘prove it’ challenge to Home Office over FE college back door visa claims

The Association of Colleges (AoC) has challenged the government to prove the sector was being used for bogus student…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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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
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
Jessica Hill