News Concerns for FE funding after Treasury announces £900m in-year BIS and DfE budget cuts The future of FE funding looks uncertain after £900m of additional cuts to the Department for Business, Innovation and… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Prime Minister’s apprenticeships ‘troubleshooter’ taskforce officially unveiled [slideshow_deploy id=’36007′] This is Prime Minister David Cameron’s new “troubleshooter” taskforce set to track government progress on its… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Lewisham Southwark College loses employment tribunal case over blind worker’s access to software Lewisham Southwark College discriminated against a blind employee by failing to make reasonable adjustments to help him do his… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Go for it Team UK! Our competitors for WorldSkills Brazil are announced [slideshow_deploy id=’35870′] These are the 41 UK youngsters upon whose shoulders the hopes of a nation will rest… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News College issues exams blanket ban on wristwatches over concerns about ‘hard to identify’ internet-enabled smart watches An East Midlands college has issued an exams blanket ban on wristwatches over fears learners could cheat using powerful… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News College job over after school achieves grade one Hull College has given up its sponsorship of a formerly failing local school having guided it to top marks… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News FE Commissioner praise following revisits The FE Commissioner has praised progress being made at two colleges following revisits. Dr David Collins checked up on… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News High profile football referee honoured at old college Former international football referee and Rotherham College alumni Howard Webb has been recognised by the Association of Colleges (AoC)… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Ofsted denies ‘jumping gun’ with Bolton College GCSE criticism Ofsted has denied “jumping the gun” on an impending funding condition after a report appeared to criticise a college… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News UTCs take eight spaces in list of 50 worst for absence Eight University Technical Colleges (UTCs) have been listed among England’s worst providers for overall absence. The Department for Education… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Prime Minister lays out apprenticeships as ‘first priority’ but sector awaits policy details The creation of more apprenticeship starts is the “first priority” out of legislation announced in the Queen’s Speech, the… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Government reviews FE scrutiny info The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has launched a review of the data it publishes on FE… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Newer 1 650 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 829 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 5mo Billy Camden 5mo
