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Apprenticeship success rates fall nearly 5pc points

Last week, FE Week revealed the best and worst success rates performers for classroom-based provision in 2013/14 — and…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Event aims to boost female tech skills

Greater collaboration between FE and business could help to encourage more women into digital industries, according to a report…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Third of Intraining workforce hit as 450 jobs set for axe

More than a third of the workforce at NCG’s 1,200-worker Intraining division were today facing redundancy following one of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Don’t scrap GCSEs without ‘coherent’ 14 to 19 overview, Labour adviser warns

Labour plans to replace GCSEs with a “national baccalaureate” with both academic and technical routes will only work if…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Lewisham Southwark College students’ union president wins NUS election

Lewisham Southwark College students’ union president Shakira Martin was today elected as the next National Union of Students (NUS)…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Anti-terrorism website launches for FE and skills providers

The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) today 0fficially unveiled a new website to help FE and skills providers stop…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Croydon unveils new free school plans

Croydon College has revealed its revamped free school proposal in its second attempt to open its own secondary school….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Functional Skills first reveals just 63pc achievement

Nearly 40 per cent of under 19 Functional Skills (FS) enrolments at general FE and tertiary colleges and independent…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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‘Achievement’ for levels two and three down since 2010

Level two and three “total achievement” levels for people aged 19 and above have declined over the last five…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Closure of third-full UTC prompts wider review call

College sector leaders have called for a review of the drive for more University Technical Colleges (UTC) after one…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Coalition parties let manifesto differences get between them

Funding increases, University Technical Colleges (UTCs) near every English city, a commission on funding for lifelong learning and millions…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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SFAsteps in for campus revamp go ahead at cash-strapped college

A cash-strapped East Midlands college’s plans for a multimillion pound campus revamp have been saved after the Skills Funding…

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