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Stamps and envelopes in Hub meltdown plan

The emergency plan that the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) would set in motion if its online data collection system…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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NCG in the running to take on a4e after sale put forward

Newcastle College Group (NCG) could be in line to take over troubled welfare-to-work provider A4e, FE Week can reveal….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Funding pulled from construction apprenticeships

London-based construction training charity Building Lives claims 180 people currently on pre-employment training schemes face missing out on starting…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Traineeship financial incentive proposal rejected by government

The government has rejected an employer and provider suggested proposal that traineeship learners should be offered a financial incentive…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Two colleges win school approvals from dfe as third prepares new plan

Two colleges have been granted permission to open their own free schools in the latest wave of 49 free…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Finance key concern for commissioner reports

Finance problems figured prominently in the two latest college inspection reports from FE Commissioner Dr David Collins (pictured above left)….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Council told to drop skills offer

The FE Commissioner has recommended that Lancashire Adult Learning (LAL) should offload its skills programmes after he was sent…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Chancellor told ‘no scope’ for more FE funding cuts

The Association of Colleges (AoC) has told Chancellor George Osborne (pictured) there is “no scope” for further reductions to…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Same time next year?

The inaugural FE Week Annual Apprenticeship Conference went with such a bang, how could we not do it again…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Funding agency dishes out extra cash for improvement strategy

The Education Funding Agency (EFA) has promised extra cash to support a struggling college’s improvement strategy, following a visit…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Government identifies ‘potential risks’ for Trailblazer programme

A government report on the apprentice Trailblazers has identified the emergence of “potential risks … that require national attention…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Report calls for FE inspection shift towards ‘self-regulation’

An Association of Colleges (AoC) report has called for “radical reforms” to the way FE provision is inspected, saying…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

Must read

16-19

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE

A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, 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
Jessica Hill