News SFA’s £30.4m grant clears K College advances debt Debts at the defunct K College were cleared after the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) dished out a £30.4m grant,… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News No tracking of traineeship job outcomes The government has admitted it did not ask providers to keep a record of whether traineeships resulted in learners… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News DfE gives colleges school data access to remove young learners’ hurdle A major stumbling block holding up colleges looking to take on 14 and 15-year-old learners has been addressed by… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Leadership thinktank launches £50K future-gazing fellowships A new FE leadership thinktank set up by former Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) chair Dame Ruth Silver… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Hub breaks down on ILR data deadline day Providers trying to submit information for the first individualised learner record (ILR) return of the academic year faced software… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Failure warning as ‘less than half’ of traineeship providers deliver starts The Department for Education (DfE) has “failed” to manage providers operating its traineeship programme, a senior MP has claimed…. FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y 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 Newer 1 708 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 835 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
