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Scores of FE colleges involved in £3.75m project to boost sector’s higher education staff

Almost 50 FE colleges will take part in a £3.75m project to help ensure industry knowledge is passed on by…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Audit office FE finances probe should examine 24pc cut plans, say college leaders

College leaders have called for a government National Audit Office (NAO) probe into college financial sustainability to consider the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Business Secretary Vince Cable calls for crackdown on ‘short-term tactical subcontracting’

Business Secretary Vince Cable has called on the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) to crack down on “short-term tactical subcontracting”….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Training providers celebrate listings in Sunday Times’ ‘100 best companies to work for’

Two independent learning providers are celebrating being named on a prestigious list of the UK’s best companies to work…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Commissioner suggests college help to Marine Society

The FE Commissioner has called for a distance learning provider to work with an FE college and raised doubts…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Tribunal trademark victory forces company to rename

Bosses at Newcastle College have won their tribunal case against a Manchester-registered company forcing it to change its name….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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New college procedures ‘not fit for purpose’

Official procedures to become an incorporated college have been described as “not fit for purpose” by the first person…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Ofsted ‘sea change’ over college finances

Ofsted has undergone a “sea change” in the way it looks at college finances, according to a principal who…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Predictability plea as just 15 pc affected after clawback warning

The Association of Colleges (AoC) has supported Skills Funding Agency plans to make its funding system more “predictable” after…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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‘Careers advisers who don’t promote apprenticeships should be fired’

Failure to promote apprenticeships and traineeships should result in the sack for careers advisers, House of Commons Education Select…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Teen confronts politicians over sixth form college VAT

A 17-year-old learner put School Reform Minister Nick Gibb and Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt on the spot as…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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BIS issues new list of named and shamed underpaying bosses

Apprenticeship employers were among the latest round of offenders named and shamed for failing to pay the national minimum…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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Colleges, Long read

Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching

In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
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