News FE Week announces media partnership with The Sunday Times Festival of Education The Sunday Times Festival of Education has confirmed FE Week and FE Week as a 2015 media partner. The annual… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Skills Minister Nick Boles looking into VAT exemption for sixth form colleges with schools ‘link-up’ Skills Minister Nick Boles plans to open discussions with the Treasury about a possible VAT exemption for sixth form… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Doug Richard arrested on suspicion of raping 13-year-old girl Former BBC Dragons’ Den investor and government apprenticeship reform adviser Doug Richard has been arrested and bailed on suspicion… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Third GFE college steps in to take an academy on from struggling chain A third general FE college is set to take over a school whose academy chain sponsor has been hit with… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News A4e gives assurance that fraudsters ‘don’t work for us anymore’ A4e chief executive Andrew Dutton has revealed that none of the staff who ripped off a Department for Work… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News British Gas cutting flow of 16 to 18 apprentices British Gas failed to deliver a massive 89 per cent of its £2.5m initial allocation for 16 to 18… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News 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 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Newer 1 677 678 679 680 681 682 683 684 685 686 687 829 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