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Accounts committee chair warns DfE has ‘little understanding of the impact of existing initiatives and programmes’ for 16 to 18-year-olds

Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge (pictured) has warned that the Department for Education (DfE) has “little understanding of…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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UCU members at Lambeth College vote to end strike

Lambeth College’s long-running dispute over new staff contracts came to an end this evening after striking union members voted…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Newcastle College boss Carole Kitching to lead Lewisham Southwark College

Lewisham Southwark College is set for a new principal and chief executive in Newcastle College’s Carole Kitching this summer….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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FE Week announces media partnership with The Sunday Times Festival of Education

The Sunday Times Festival of Education has confirmed FE Week and FE Week as a 2015 media partner. The annual…

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FE Week Reporter
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Skills Minister Nick Boles looking into VAT exemption for sixth form colleges with schools ‘link-up’

Skills Minister Nick Boles plans to open discussions with the Treasury about a possible VAT exemption for sixth form…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Doug Richard arrested on suspicion of raping 13-year-old girl

Former BBC Dragons’ Den investor and government apprenticeship reform adviser Doug Richard has been arrested and bailed on suspicion…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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Third GFE college steps in to take an academy on from struggling chain

A third general FE college is set to take over a school whose academy chain sponsor has been hit with…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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A4e gives assurance that fraudsters ‘don’t work for us anymore’

A4e chief executive Andrew Dutton has revealed that none of the staff who ripped off a Department for Work…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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British Gas cutting flow of 16 to 18 apprentices

British Gas failed to deliver a massive 89 per cent of its £2.5m initial allocation for 16 to 18…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Confusion as official websites return different apprenticeship results

Concerns that two official apprenticeship websites could be causing confusion have emerged with identical vacancy searches returning vastly different…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Principal says borrowing to blame for finances issue

A Basingstoke sixth form college was today expected to present a draft financial recovery plan to the Education Funding…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Value for money question on Gazelle spending ‘answered by memberships’

Gazelle chief executive Fintan Donohue has said that it’s for to colleges to decide if his organisation delivered value…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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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
Adult education, ITPs

Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers

Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps

Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps

Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Frances Read
Apprenticeships

Entrepreneur chased for millions after apprenticeship collapse

ESFA uncovers ‘fake’ taxi apprentices as liquidator reveals intercompany payments days after firm decided to shut

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets

Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen