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ETF seeks to answer IfL membership concerns after transfer vote green light

The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) said it was still working out the details of a move to take…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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High-achieving Midland apprentices honoured with House of Lords celebration

Dozens of high-achieving apprentices from West Nottinghamshire College Group were handed awards at a House of Lords ceremony to celebrate…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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IfL council votes in favour of closing and takeover by ETF

The Institute for Learning (IfL) is to close and will be taken over by the Education and Training Foundation…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Former Shadow Skills Minister Gordon Marsden calls for return of ‘concept behind’ fraud-plagued funding system

The return of the “concept behind” a Labour government policy on funding adult skills abandoned in 2001 amid fraud…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Gazelle’s ‘supportive’ report from the ETF to remain private

An allegedly “supportive” report by the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) on Gazelle will not be made public with both…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Former IfL deputy chief makes last-ditch plea for body to stay ‘independent’ as members vote on ETF takeover plan

A former deputy chief executive of the Institute for Learning (IfL) has made a last-ditch public plea to stop…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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UCU set to ask college staff to reject biggest pay offer in five years

College staff across England will be urged to reject their biggest pay offer in five years when the University…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Lowestoft College’s ‘on leave’ principal to step down after critical report

Lowestoft College principal Simon Summers (pictured) is to step down — just a fortnight after it was revealed he took…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Chair at inadequate-rated Stockport College tells board he is stepping down

The chair of governors at Stockport College, which was hit with an inadequate Ofsted rating last year before being…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Skills Minister Nick Boles acknowledges ‘concerns’ that qualifications reform has gone too far

Skills Minister Nick Boles said he was prepared to investigate whether qualifications reform had “gone too far” as he…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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New Skills Minister Nick Boles admits to knowing ‘nothing’ about sector

New Skills Minister Nick Boles admitted to knowing “nothing” about the sector during his first parliamentary appearance in the job,…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Niace chief in gruelling father-and-son charity cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats — and a bit

There are surely less gruelling ways of spending quality father-and-son time than a bike ride the length of Great…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford

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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
Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

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
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, FE Commissioner

Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal

Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal

Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
T Levels

NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure

Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel