News Skills Funding Agency releases long-awaited online learning aim search engine The Skills Funding Agency has produced its long-awaited and overdue online Learning Aims Reference System (Lars). It is an… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Number of Neets falls — but England still behind European neighbours, warns thinktank The number of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) fell in the first three months of… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Seven-year wait for new FE and skills professional teaching standards is over New guidelines for FE and skills teachers, lecturers and trainers have been issued by the Education and Training Foundation…. Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Commissioner ruling on grade four college leads to 150 jobs at risk A Greater Manchester college could be forced to make up to 150 redundancies after it was ordered to balance… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News UCU rejects 0.7 per cent offer as pay talks continue Pay talks between college staff and leaders are to continue after a 0.7 per cent pay rise was rejected… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Learndirect could get £100m flotation Learndirect could be in line for a £100m flotation, it has been reported. According to Education Investor magazine, the… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News NUS chief executive Ben Kernighan resigns less than one year in post National Union of Students (NUS) chief executive Ben Kernighan has resigned after less than a year in the role,… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Bright Assessing loses third and final appeal stage after ‘malpractice’ was found Awarding organisation NCFE (formerly the Northern Council for Further Education) has detailed evidence of alleged malpractice at Bright Assessing… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Government announces traineeships in future could take less than three weeks The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has confirmed to FE Week that the traineeship minimum duration rule… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Careers guidance and financial support top ATL election manifesto priorities Good careers guidance, financial support for learners progressing to FE and an end to colleges being run for profit… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Baker in ‘no Neets’ plea as youth job hopes take centre stage The number of jobless young people is as its lowest level in five years, but at the Youth Employment… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Twitter row principal calls off CEO move A Hampshire principal caught up in a Twitter row in which BBC presenter Jeremy Clarkson was labelled a c***… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Newer 1 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 820 Older Must read 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 4w Jessica Hill 4w 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 3mo Billy Camden 3mo Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo
