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Looking at inspections from the ‘other side of the fence’

It’s one thing being inspected by Ofsted — and feeling aggrieved by the process or outcome — but it’s…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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No FE question time on Question Time

Further education figures were left disappointed by a lack of sector talk as Skills Minister Matthew Hancock and Professor…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Jobcentres steer teens away from traineeships

Jobcentre Plus (JCP) advisers have been told not to direct 18 and 19-year-olds to the government’s flagship traineeship scheme…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Still no end in sight to SFA software nightmare

There remains no end in sight to the problems faced by providers trying to use new funding software to…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Boss speaks out over payments ‘dispute’

The managing director of a London-based independent learning provider has defended his firm after details of an alleged subcontractor…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Gove attacked over excellent ‘extra-curricular’ claims

Funding for “expensive and untested” free schools should be used to improve extra-curricular activities at existing institutions, Sixth Form…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Principal ‘devastated’ by girl’s nursery death

The principal of a Yorkshire college said she had been “devastated” by the death of a three-year-old girl who…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Euro funding could be better spent locally — DWP official

European funding for tackling youth unemployment could have been better spent at local level, a Department for Work and…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Provider staff admit ripping off taxpayers

The boss of A4e has spoken of his disappointment at four former employers after they admitted ripping off taxpayers…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Loans process ‘putting off learners’

Fears have been raised that a lengthy application process for FE loans could be putting people off starting courses….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Hayes in FE ‘comeback’ after year out

Former Skills Minister John Hayes has called for more to be done to improve careers advice for young people…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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£20m scheme to recruit 500 extra maths teachers for FE sector unveiled

Graduate maths teachers who choose to teach in FE colleges will get a bonus of up to £10,000 under…

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