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Government to launch destination data talks

The government is to launch a consultation on “outcome-based measures of performance for all post-19 FE and skills” as…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Corruption warning on funding proposals

The boss of a leading independent training provider has hit out at the government’s apprenticeship funding reform proposals warning…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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College chief reassures over vile assault

A Humberside college chief has spoken out to re-assure learners and parents after a former member of staff was…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Unions divided by strikes over pay

Two teaching unions have been divided over plans for sixth form college strikes next month. The National Association of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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End in sight for K College sale saga

The sale of troubled K College looks to be over with the announcement of two “preferred providers”. Land-based Hadlow…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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McDonald’s education chief to become SFA’s apprenticeship boss

The UK head of education for fast food giant McDonald’s is set to become England’s new apprenticeship boss, FE…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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Traineeships to escape DWP’s 16-hour rule from early next month

A Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) exemption for traineeships that was promised last year by Chancellor George Osborne is to come…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Police scouring funding agencies’ reports on Barnfield Federation

Reports on the under-fire Barnfield Federation by government funding agencies have been passed onto police. Officers in Hertfordshire are…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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York College fined £175k over nursery death of three-year-old Lydia Bishop

York College has been fined £175,000 over the death of a three-year-old girl who got her neck caught in…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Watchdog promises to ‘fundamentally re-design’ quals appeal system

Ofqual has announced plans to overhaul the A-level appeals system in England, dubbing it “overly complex” and “opaque” in…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Principal of inadequate Greater Manchester college to ‘work from home’

The principal of a Greater Manchester college is to take early retirement after it dropped from outstanding to inadequate in…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Skills Minister Matthew Hancock greeted by protest at Question Time college

A controversial funding rate cut for 18-year-olds was the subject of a lively protest and crunch talks when Skills…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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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