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Threefold increase in £200k-plus principal posts

The number of colleges paying out upwards of £200k on their principal posts rocketed threefold last academic year, FE…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Labour plan face-to-face careers advice for all teenagers to include ‘high quality apprenticeship’ guidance

Sector leaders have welcomed Labour plans announced today to give every teenager face-to-face careers advice — including guidance on…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Slapped wrists for Ucas after breach of electronic marketing rules by ‘wrongly’ signing college learners up for advertising

Learners who used the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) to apply for higher education courses at FE colleges…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Provider hit with grade four rating after just one apprenticeship achievement in two years

An independent learning provider that has seen just one learner achieve an apprenticeship since it started running the programme almost…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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SFA relaxes traineeship subcontractor rules while DWP ‘increases access’ for young JSA claimants

The Skills Funding Agency has relaxed its rules on new traineeship subcontracting to allow all grade three-rated and non-inspected…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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New toolkit launched to help FE providers comply with rules on radicalisation

A toolkit aimed at helping colleges and independent learning providers comply with new government rules on preventing radicalisation has been…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Colleges defend subcontracting agreements with ‘cult’ school chain

Two FE colleges have defended their dealings with a religious school chain denounced as a “cult” by former members and…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Lewisham Southwark College gets two-inadequates-in-a-row first as pace of improvement criticised

Lewisham Southwark College has been given the ignominious honour of becoming the first FE and skills provider to be branded…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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AoC demands investigation by MPs after review reveals 37 per cent starts success in £340m employer ownership of skills pilot

The Association of Colleges (AoC) has demanded an inquiry by MPs in the next Parliament into a “waste of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Ex-A4e workers jailed over £300k taxpayer fraud

Five former A4e workers have been jailed for their parts in a back-to-work scheme fraud that cost the taxpayer nearly…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Dr Lynne Sedgmore to become FE and skills’ first Poet Laureate

*** Hands up if you fell for it? Yes, this was our April Fool’s Day 2015 prank story, and…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Government response to sixth form college VAT campaign on Parliament dissolution day branded ‘cynical’

The Government has been branded “cynical” by the Sixth Form Colleges’ Association (SFCA) after responding to a long-running campaign…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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Colleges, Long read

Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail

More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
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
Young people

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
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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
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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