News Fraudsters outwitted in £5.8m new build banking scam Police are hunting fraudsters who tried to rip off an Essex college by pretending be behind work on its… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News ‘Devil in the detail’ warning on Ofsted’s new CIF Ofsted has been warned that the “devil will be in the detail” when it applies a new common inspection… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Fetl focus on third sector challenges The Further Education Trust for Leadership (Fetl) has handed fellowship grants, worth up to £40,000 each, to four senior… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News President Atkins reveals concern over falling performance Association of Colleges (AoC) president Richard Atkins has told of his concern at in depth research by FE Week… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Pressure mounts for Labour 16 to 19 ringfence policy The pressure is mounting on Labour to reveal whether it would introduce an FE and skills funding ringfence after… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Mikaela on road to photography success Stoke-on-Trent College learner Mikaela Mae Cobby is the winner of this year’s FE Week and Me Photography Competition. The… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News ‘No gap’ assurance amid ESF funding delay concerns The European Commission and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have vowed there will be no gap in… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y 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 Newer 1 679 680 681 682 683 684 685 686 687 688 689 835 Older Must read 16-19 Long read 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 3w Anviksha Patel 3w 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 4w Shane Chowen 4w Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 1mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 1mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo