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Mikaela on road to photography success

Stoke-on-Trent College learner Mikaela Mae Cobby is the winner of this year’s FE Week and Me Photography Competition. The…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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‘No gap’ assurance amid ESF funding delay concerns

The European Commission and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have vowed there will be no gap in…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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SFA review clears college

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has cleared a London college of any wrong-doing over a £4.1m budget black hole…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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High-profile BBC host for FE Week apprentice event

BBC Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark has been unveiled as host of the FE Week Annual Apprenticeship Conference next month….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Principal’s defence on tables data

A principal has defended her University Technical College (UTC) after it came in dramatically below other institutions in official…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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City & Guilds makes Oxford provider move

Awarding organisation City & Guilds has announced its acquisition of privately-funded independent learning provider The Oxford Group. It said…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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SFA to fund non-QCF quals as Ofqual begins to remove controversial framework

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has announced it will fund courses which do not fit with the qualifications and credit framework (QCF) as…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Funding for 16 and 17-year-olds to remain at £4,000 in 2015/16, EFA confirms

The funding rate for 16 and 17-year-old learners will remain at £4,000, the Education Funding Agency (EFA) has confirmed….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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FE Week and Me Photography Competition: And the winner is…

The winner of the FE Week and Me Photography Competition (in partnership with NCFE) has spoken of her surprise…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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SFA in multi-million pound non-apprenticeship payout

Colleges and local authorities will get a multi-million pound Skills Funding Agency (SFA) payout for non-apprenticeship provision this month…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Fraction of qualifications survive the latest Skills Funding Agency cull

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) is axing the public funding of 1,567 adult qualifications in its third annual cull….

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Labour loses vote on apprenticeship two-year minimum duration and level three start

Labour this afternoon lost a House of Commons vote on plans to scrap apprenticeships of less than two years’ duration…

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