News A4e staff ripped off DWP welfare-to-work scheme with false clients and forged paper trails Four A4e workers forged paperwork to make fraudulent claims against a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) welfare-to-work scheme,… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Apprenticeship reform proposals were ‘half-cocked,’ Skills Minister Nick Boles tells MPs Skills Minister Nick Boles has told the House of Commons Education Select Committee that the government had “gone off half-cock” [sic]… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Apprenticeship funding question remains unanswered as government consults further on PAYE and credit account The future of apprenticeship funding remains unclear despite the government this morning responding to the results of a three-month… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News ‘Extraordinary’ former Lambeth College vice principal dies, aged 68 A former London college vice-principal described by ex-colleagues as “a woman of extraordinary energy and judgement” has died, aged… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y 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 Newer 1 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 816 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 3w Jessica Hill 3w 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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