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Part-time learner numbers show sharp decline

Further education leaders have called for action to stop a sharp decline in part-time higher education study after a…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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EXCLUSIVE: BIS to go public with commissioner’s failing college judgments

The results of FE Commissioner David Collins’ inspections of failing colleges are to be made public, FE Week can…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Niace calls for apprentice charter in funding consultation response

The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) has called for the introduction of an apprentice charter and job…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Skills Minister reveals identity of first new FE college in 20 years

Skills Minister Matthew Hancock has confirmed that Essex-based charity Prospects Learning Foundation is to become the first new FE college…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Principals ‘may not’ understand their chief executive role

College leaders who are both principals and chief executives may not fully understand both parts of their role according…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Ofsted launches provider review tool for employers

Employers will be able to anonymously rate, review and compare providers using an online tool launched by Ofsted today…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Celebrating 100 editions of FE Week

Click here to download Edition 100 of FE Week Click here to download edition 100 and our special celebratory…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Taxman looks to reissue restaurant bill

Click here to read  the article by Rebecca Cooney

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Taxman looks to reissue restaurant bill

A Hampshire college that went to court in its bid to win a training restaurant tax rebate could be…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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New Ofsted director tells of priorities

Lorna Fitzjohn has taken over as Ofsted’s new director of FE and skills. She was previously deputy director for…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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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

Must read

16-19

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
Anviksha Patel
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
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