News Leps need more responsibility and funding to deliver on digital skills, adult education chief tells Lords Local enterprise partnerships (Leps) should be given more responsibility and funding to point learners in the direction of opportunities… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Teen apprenticeship numbers could be hit by making employers pay, National Audit Office warns Government plans to make employers pay for up to a third of the training for 16 to 18 apprenticeships… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Police investigate after college website hacked to promote Islamic militants A college website inadvertently gave its support to the militant group Islamic State (ISIS) after it was hacked, prompting… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News New awarding body steps in to certificate 500 of the more than 30,000 paying learners left stranded A troubled provider which has been struggling to get courses certificated has been approved by a new awarding body… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Colleges to step in as school plans to scrap its sixth form provision Local colleges are ready to take on A-level students from a school sixth form set to close because of… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News The north continues to dominate as DfE release names of colleges that can recruit full-time 14 to 15-year-olds A further nine colleges have been given permission to recruit full-time 14 to 15-year-olds this September, the second year… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Skills Minister speaks at ceremony launching first new FE college for over 20 years Skills Minister Nick Boles visited Essex to mark the “milestone” transformation of Prospects Learning Foundation in to the first… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Sector concern after Skills Funding Agency list a further 174 qualifications facing the axe The government has been warned by FE sector leaders against making “simplistic decisions” that could limit funding to qualifications for… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Math teacher training fund divides opinion after colleges with notice of financial concern are barred A new maths teacher training fund which will exclude the most cash-strapped colleges doesn’t add up, according to the… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News FE loan applications show no sign of a late summer rush Two FE bodies have warned that the low take-up of 24+ loans shows the scheme should not be extended until… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News AoC and AELP unite in warning BIS FE loan extension plan could hit learner numbers The proposed expansion of the FE loans system to cover to cover level two qualifications and also younger learners could… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Reed recruitment agency stops re-selling My Distance Learning College courses amid row over 32,000 paying-learner certificates A major recruitment agency has stopped re-selling courses run by troubled Rotherham-based provider My Distance Learning College (MDLC) amid… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Newer 1 702 703 704 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 829 Older Must read 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 1w Shane Chowen 1w 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo Long read, Prison education Long read 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 5mo Billy Camden 5mo
