News Counting the cost of Labour’s plans to reform apprenticeships Labour’s apprenticeship proposals could cost taxpayers as much as £11.7bn over the course of the next parliament, according to… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News College steps in with A4e set to walk away from London prisons A general FE college has stepped in after a major private provider pulled out early from London’s £17m prison… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Education Secretary Nicky Morgan ‘dodges’ MPs’ careers questions Sector leaders have called for more detail about how a new company set up by government to improve careers… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Twelve months of change for Skills Minister and FE Week — a review of 2014 The past year was a dramatic one for FE Week which saw a change of editor and a major… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Department for Education overtime payments up 40pc Department for Education (DfE) overtime payments rocketed by nearly 40 per cent between September and November, it has been… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Caretakers’ honour as New Year awards bring wide-ranging FE and skills recognition The new year got off to a flying start for FE and skills with more than 30 sector figures named in… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Land agreed for HS2 college Plans for one of two high speed rail national college campuses are a step closer to fruition after Doncaster… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Contingency plan assurance from SFA after latest Hub breakdown The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has assured providers that it has a contingency plan after the Hub suffered the… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Certification pledge amid Skills for Logisitics closure Providers have been given assurances that logistics apprenticeships will continue to be certificated after the industry’s Sector Skills Council… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Bus service cuts hitting FE and skills attendance with learners not ‘even getting to college gates’ Years of funding cuts in local bus services that have seen around 2,000 routes being trimmed or ended has… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Vote now: FE Week and Me photography competition 2014 The entries are in, the shortlist is finalised and it’s time for the winner of the FE Week and… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Should former Barnfield boss Sir Peter hand back FE knighthood after inadequate rating? Troubled Barnfield College has been described by Ofsted as having “no key strengths” — prompting question marks over whether… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Newer 1 662 663 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 812 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 3d Jessica Hill 3d 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 1mo Billy Camden 1mo 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