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Confusion as official websites return different apprenticeship results

Concerns that two official apprenticeship websites could be causing confusion have emerged with identical vacancy searches returning vastly different…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Principal says borrowing to blame for finances issue

A Basingstoke sixth form college was today expected to present a draft financial recovery plan to the Education Funding…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Value for money question on Gazelle spending ‘answered by memberships’

Gazelle chief executive Fintan Donohue has said that it’s for to colleges to decide if his organisation delivered value…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Certificate conman gets 80 hours’ unpaid work

An online conman who sold fake City & Guilds and OCR certificates from his Darlington cul-de-sac home has been…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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UPDATED: Indefinite strike woes set to hit for second time in a year

UPDATE – Monday, January 19, 2015 A drawn-out strike could be averted and one of the most long running…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Internet block on LGBT websites ‘sends out wrong message’

A Midland college has been warned its internet software was sending out the “wrong message” after it blocked learners…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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FE colleges get £700k windfall for higher ed collaboration

More than £700,000 will be handed shared among 74 FE colleges to encourage young people to progress into higher…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Local authority one of just three to win a glowing Ofsted report

A Midland council is celebrating after its adult education provision was rated outstanding across the board by Ofsted. Wolverhampton…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Finance directors targeted in scam

College finance directors have been targeted in a bailiff scam involving a chilling “long series” of phonecalls with the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Apprenticeship reforms ‘not in long grass’ — Boles

Skills Minister Nick Boles denied apprenticeship reforms had been “kicked into the long grass” after the government went back…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Cameron hits the roof

The Prime Minister reached new heights when he visited a Nottingham provider to find out more about apprenticeships, writes…

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FE Week Reporter
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SFA apologises for shock clawback warning that caused ‘sleepless nights’ for provider staff

Skills Funding Agency (SFA) director Keith Smith (pictured) has apologised to providers about a shock clawback warning that caused “sleepless…

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