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Phones 4u collapse leaves learners in dark

More than 800 apprentices were today in the dark over their qualifications and job future after Skills Funding Agency…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Student services leader criticises DfE over ‘costly’ handling of FE free meal top-ups

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has felt the full force of college student service leaders’ frustration over her department’s handling…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Fraudster cash goes toward apprenticeships return

A council in Bedfordshire will use the ill-gotten gains of a junk mail fraudster to bring back its apprenticeship…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Minister to rule on Barnfield split after public say

Skills Minister Nick Boles will rule on plans for Barnfield College to leave the Barnfield Federation once a public…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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BREAKING: AoC goes ahead with pay deal despite UCU opposition

The Association of Colleges (AoC) is to proceed with its pay deal despite plans by the University and College Union…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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REVEALED – the new FE Insider columnist for FE Week

Like the next Dr Who or latest James Bond, the world has been waiting with bated breath to learn…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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DfE U-turn on FE free meals policy puts top-ups back on menu

The Department for Education (DfE) today revealed a U-turn on its FE free meals policy, allowing providers to boost…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

UCU announces strike and possible further action as members reject 1 per cent pay rise

College staff have voted to strike next month in the latest of a series of strikes over pay, the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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College rips up ‘not fit for purpose’ UTC action plan

An improvement plan aimed at turning around the fortunes of an inadequate-rated university technical college (UTC) has been ripped…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Education Secretary under pressure to establish ‘careers hubs’

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has come under pressure from FE sector leaders to reform careers advice and guidance by…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Inspectors to take closer look at under fire study programmes

Study programmes will be “central to inspections” from this week as Ofsted seeks to challenge a slow response to…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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GCSE failure as Wilshaw sounds alarm bells

Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw has told of his shock at GCSE English and maths attainment levels and teaching…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

Must read

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
Colleges, 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
Jessica Hill