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Warning for providers as SFA named in fraudster ‘spear fishing’ campaign

Email fraudsters are targeting FE and skills providers by posing as the Skills Funding Agency. The sector has been…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Colleges ‘tackling’ apprentice farrier bullying but ‘need’ modernisation

Ofsted monitoring inspections of three colleges that took over apprenticeship provision following accusations of bullying found safeguarding had improved,…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Success on the South Coast

Chichester College has received an outstanding grade from Ofsted. The 14,500-learner college, previously rated as good, achieved the top…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Transfer of K College provision under way

The break-up of K College is under way with governors confirming the transfer of provision to East Kent College…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Inadequate college leaders stay despite commissioner questions

The principal and governors’ chair at a grade four London college that Ofsted said was failing to improve are…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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South Devon College claims twin success rates title

South Devon College has claimed the top spot for general FE qualification success rates for 2012/13. The college’s 94.7…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Huge survey lifts lid on sector

More than 1,000 FE and skills staff took part and vast majority revealed concerns about levels of institutional funding….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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The Oxford Partnership – Saudi Arabia – Vacancies

  The Oxford Partnership (TOP) is proud to be associated with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to support…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Top college earner figures ‘not showing full picture’

Calls for college chief executive and principal pay levels to be published have emerged amid concerns the growth of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Students’ union ‘needs more ambition’ in putting FE funding case

The National Union of Students’ National Conference took place in Liverpool this month and resulted in re-elections and new…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Privacy warning over biometric data collection

The boss of a Leicester-based national subcontractor where learners have their finger measurements scanned to get into classrooms has…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Software and Leps in Spicer update

Skills Funding Agency (SFA) interim chief executive Barbara Spicer has written to contractors with an update on a range…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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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
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