News Exclusive: SFA ‘should scrap’ funding data deadline More than four in every five FE data staff believe the funding data return for the 2013/14 academic year… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Support for agency chief in cancer fight Warm tributes have been paid to Skills Funding Agency chief executive Kim Thorneywork after it was announced she was… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Elmfield staff ‘still in dark’ on future as administration looms Hundreds of Elmfield Training staff could still be in the dark about their futures more than a week after… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News AoC stands firm over unqualified lecturers The Association of Colleges (AoC) maintained its support for allowing member colleges to recruit unqualified lecturers, despite some college… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News SFA notice at City Coventry College remains despite ‘progress’ The Skills Funding Agency will not remove City College Coventry’s Notice of Concern, despite Ofsted ruling it had made… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Rejection for family learning plan proposal The Department for Education (DfE) has rejected calls by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) for a… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Agency strips provider of £2.5m contract A Lancashire-based training provider has been stripped of its £2.5m Skills Funding Agency contract following a damning Ofsted grading… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Apprenticeships make up just half a per cent of FE loan applications Figures released this morning show just 239 loans for apprenticeships have been applied for since the scheme began — 162 in September. The figures… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Funding software delay ‘getting serious,’ 157 group tells SFA The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has been hit with further criticism over “serious difficulties” faced by colleges because of… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Foundation appoints permanent chief executive A policy director at the Department for Education (DfE) will become the Education and Training Foundation’s (ETF) first permanent… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Government publishes its ‘radical and far-reaching’ apprenticeship plan The government has this morning confirmed in a newly-published implementation plan that it would put apprenticeship design in England in the hands… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Fresh concerns raised over Barnfield College Teaching unions have raised further concerns about the governance and management of a troubled college which is being investigated by the… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y Newer 1 736 737 738 739 740 741 742 743 744 745 746 816 Older Must read 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 3w Jessica Hill 3w 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
