News Apprenticeships commission puts colleges forward as solution to schools’ vocational offer for ‘all’ 14 to 16-year-olds All 14 to 16-year-olds should be able to study a vocational subject at school – and colleges could hold the… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Scores of FE colleges involved in £3.75m project to boost sector’s higher education staff Almost 50 FE colleges will take part in a £3.75m project to help ensure industry knowledge is passed on by… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Audit office FE finances probe should examine 24pc cut plans, say college leaders College leaders have called for a government National Audit Office (NAO) probe into college financial sustainability to consider the… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Business Secretary Vince Cable calls for crackdown on ‘short-term tactical subcontracting’ Business Secretary Vince Cable has called on the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) to crack down on “short-term tactical subcontracting”…. FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Training providers celebrate listings in Sunday Times’ ‘100 best companies to work for’ Two independent learning providers are celebrating being named on a prestigious list of the UK’s best companies to work… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Commissioner suggests college help to Marine Society The FE Commissioner has called for a distance learning provider to work with an FE college and raised doubts… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Tribunal trademark victory forces company to rename Bosses at Newcastle College have won their tribunal case against a Manchester-registered company forcing it to change its name…. FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News New college procedures ‘not fit for purpose’ Official procedures to become an incorporated college have been described as “not fit for purpose” by the first person… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Ofsted ‘sea change’ over college finances Ofsted has undergone a “sea change” in the way it looks at college finances, according to a principal who… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Predictability plea as just 15 pc affected after clawback warning The Association of Colleges (AoC) has supported Skills Funding Agency plans to make its funding system more “predictable” after… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News ‘Careers advisers who don’t promote apprenticeships should be fired’ Failure to promote apprenticeships and traineeships should result in the sack for careers advisers, House of Commons Education Select… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Teen confronts politicians over sixth form college VAT A 17-year-old learner put School Reform Minister Nick Gibb and Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt on the spot as… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Newer 1 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 812 Older 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 4d Jessica Hill 4d 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 4w Jessica Hill 4w 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
