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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
Nick Linford
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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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Interim replacement hired while New College Stamford principal ‘on leave’

Former Lincoln College principal of 14 years John Allen (pictured above left) has taken over from under fire New College…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Concern grows that FE quality mark has ‘stalled’

Concern is growing in the FE sector that plans for an FE Chartered Status quality mark have “stalled” with…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Recruitment at 14 ‘difficult’ as UTCs’ capacity runs as low as 12.2pc

Six out of 30 University Technical Colleges (UTCs) are operating at up to just a third full — with…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Apprenticeship success rates fall nearly 5pc points

Last week, FE Week revealed the best and worst success rates performers for classroom-based provision in 2013/14 — and…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Event aims to boost female tech skills

Greater collaboration between FE and business could help to encourage more women into digital industries, according to a report…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Third of Intraining workforce hit as 450 jobs set for axe

More than a third of the workforce at NCG’s 1,200-worker Intraining division were today facing redundancy following one of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Don’t scrap GCSEs without ‘coherent’ 14 to 19 overview, Labour adviser warns

Labour plans to replace GCSEs with a “national baccalaureate” with both academic and technical routes will only work if…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Lewisham Southwark College students’ union president wins NUS election

Lewisham Southwark College students’ union president Shakira Martin was today elected as the next National Union of Students (NUS)…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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
Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

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
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, FE Commissioner

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel