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FE colleges get £700k windfall for higher ed collaboration

More than £700,000 will be handed shared among 74 FE colleges to encourage young people to progress into higher…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Local authority one of just three to win a glowing Ofsted report

A Midland council is celebrating after its adult education provision was rated outstanding across the board by Ofsted. Wolverhampton…

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FE Week Reporter
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Finance directors targeted in scam

College finance directors have been targeted in a bailiff scam involving a chilling “long series” of phonecalls with the…

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FE Week Reporter
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Apprenticeship reforms ‘not in long grass’ — Boles

Skills Minister Nick Boles denied apprenticeship reforms had been “kicked into the long grass” after the government went back…

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FE Week Reporter
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Cameron hits the roof

The Prime Minister reached new heights when he visited a Nottingham provider to find out more about apprenticeships, writes…

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FE Week Reporter
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SFA apologises for shock clawback warning that caused ‘sleepless nights’ for provider staff

Skills Funding Agency (SFA) director Keith Smith (pictured) has apologised to providers about a shock clawback warning that caused “sleepless…

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FE Week Reporter


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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]…

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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…

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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…

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

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