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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
Nick Linford
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
Nick Linford
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‘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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter


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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
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