News LeSoCo principal Maxine Room to stand down The principal of LeSoCo in south east London is to stand down at the end of the academic year,… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Governors get three-point college improvement plan College governors have been given a three-point improvement plan in a joint 157 Group and Ofsted report on good practice… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Employers call for apprenticeship control — but what did key FE players think? More than 30 employer bodies joined forces to call for greater control over apprenticeships just days after a technical… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Success rates change makes system ‘overly complex’ A college principal has hit out at proposed changes to the way the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) reports and… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Top DfE civil servant makes IAG concession There remains “more to be done” to improve careers advice and guidance in England, the Department for Education’s most… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Schools cash ringfence ‘unsustainable’ warns AoC Department for Education (DfE) ringfencing of school funding has been labelled as “unsustainable” by the Association of Colleges (AoC)… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Governors take driving seat with Data Dashboard Governors will have greater access to performance information on their institutions with Ofsted’s launch of an online dashboard expected… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Fewer than two applications for every traineeship vacancy Official figures showing fewer than two applications for each traineeship vacancy have sparked concern about a “general lack of… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News EFA issues out-of-area rule Colleges seeking funding for learners based outside their usual catchment areas will have to give notice of eight weeks,… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Specialist colleges leader tells of concerns over new SEN law The impact of a new law aimed at improving special needs provision in general FE and sixth form colleges… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Dame Ruth in fine fettle for leadership role return Dame Ruth Silver is making her FE and skills return with a new sector leadership thinktank funded by money… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Who will certificate Bright? More awarding organisations distance themselves from troubled provider Two further awarding organisations have cut ties with Bright Assessing less… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y Newer 1 727 728 729 730 731 732 733 734 735 736 737 835 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
