News SFA review clears college The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has cleared a London college of any wrong-doing over a £4.1m budget black hole… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News High-profile BBC host for FE Week apprentice event BBC Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark has been unveiled as host of the FE Week Annual Apprenticeship Conference next month…. FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Principal’s defence on tables data A principal has defended her University Technical College (UTC) after it came in dramatically below other institutions in official… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News City & Guilds makes Oxford provider move Awarding organisation City & Guilds has announced its acquisition of privately-funded independent learning provider The Oxford Group. It said… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News SFA to fund non-QCF quals as Ofqual begins to remove controversial framework The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has announced it will fund courses which do not fit with the qualifications and credit framework (QCF) as… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Funding for 16 and 17-year-olds to remain at £4,000 in 2015/16, EFA confirms The funding rate for 16 and 17-year-old learners will remain at £4,000, the Education Funding Agency (EFA) has confirmed…. FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News FE Week and Me Photography Competition: And the winner is… The winner of the FE Week and Me Photography Competition (in partnership with NCFE) has spoken of her surprise… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News SFA in multi-million pound non-apprenticeship payout Colleges and local authorities will get a multi-million pound Skills Funding Agency (SFA) payout for non-apprenticeship provision this month… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Fraction of qualifications survive the latest Skills Funding Agency cull The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) is axing the public funding of 1,567 adult qualifications in its third annual cull…. Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Labour loses vote on apprenticeship two-year minimum duration and level three start Labour this afternoon lost a House of Commons vote on plans to scrap apprenticeships of less than two years’ duration… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News ‘Be brave and stand’ says AoC president as election process for new leader gets under way Principals have been urged to “be brave and stand” as the Association of Colleges today (AoC) begins the hunt… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Ofsted pushes ahead with unified inspection plan for FE and skills, schools and early years Ofsted today confirmed it was pushing ahead with “some of the most significant changes to the inspection of education… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Newer 1 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 681 682 683 829 Older Must read Qualifications Exclusive 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 2w Shane Chowen 2w Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo 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 5mo Billy Camden 5mo
