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Singing FE lecturer shortlisted for $1m best teacher in world prize

A singing science lecturer from Middlesbrough College is in the running for a $1m first-prize after making the top…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Miliband announces that Labour would protect 16 to 19 funding

A Labour government would protect 16 to 19 education as part of plans to protect the entire Department for…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Miliband to stand by Labour’s controversial plans to scrap apprenticeships below level three

Labour leader Ed Miliband is set to stand by his party’s controversial pledge to scrap apprenticeships of less than two…

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FE Week Reporter
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Niace proposes £100m ‘advancement service’ for low-paid workers – with poll

The government should top-slice from skills and careers budgets to pay for coaches to help people out of low-paid…

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FE Week Reporter
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MPs write to Nicky Morgan over sixth form colleges VAT exemption

More than 70 MPs have written to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan calling for sixth form colleges to be exempted…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Less than a quarter of quals win appeal against SFA cull

Less than one-in-four qualifications listed as in danger of the public funding axe last year have survived the latest…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Traineeship action call as ‘up to 40 pc’ say no to delivery

Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge has called for government action to boost traineeships after official figures showed take-up among…

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FE Week Reporter
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Fracking vote ‘won’t affect’ National college plans

Leaders of the new National College for Onshore Oil and Gas have played down the possibility of a local…

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FE Week Reporter
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Learners and staff among creditors £800k out of pocket by Bright demise

Learners, staff and other creditors are expected to be left around £800k out of pocket with the demise of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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College told to give up inadequate-rated academy

An FE college in Suffolk has been ordered to hand over its 11 to 16 academy to new sponsors…

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FE Week Reporter
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Financial difficulties at ‘50 colleges’

Around 50 colleges could be in serious financial difficulty due to a “perfect storm” of capital debt and 16…

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FE Week Reporter
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Fraudsters outwitted in £5.8m new build banking scam

Police are hunting fraudsters who tried to rip off an Essex college by pretending be behind work on its…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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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