News Niace sets out demands for FE in budget submission The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) has demanded that the next budget tackle the “crisis” facing adult skills… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Ed Miliband to pledge ‘apprenticeship guarantee’ to deliver 80,000 extra annual starts by 2020 An “apprenticeship guarantee” will create 80,000 more starts a year by 2020 if Labour forms a government in May,… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News College is prepared to take on learners after academy trust drops plans for school sixth form The principal of an FE college is planning to take-on students left stranded after an academy trust dropped plans… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Newer 1 663 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 673 820 Older Must read Colleges, Long read 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 3mo Billy Camden 3mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo
