News

Don’t cut allocations to meet savings target, pleads sector

The government has been warned against looking to FE allocations to help meet Chancellor George Osborne’s aim of a…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Six-month euro funding delay ‘could have been avoided’

Sector leaders have lashed out at the UK government and European Commission over a possible six-month funding gap for…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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
FE Week Reporter
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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
Nick Linford
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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
Nick Linford
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
Nick Linford


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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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
FE Week Reporter
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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter

Must read

16-19

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

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