News Commissioner strips second principal of powers The FE Commissioner has slapped a second grade four college with administered status as an Ofsted monitoring report blasted… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Agency gets tough with new rules on bosses The Skills Funding Agency has beefed-up funding rules to stop rogue bosses setting up new providers to get their… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Countdown to end of apprentice loans continues No date has been given for the abolition of adult apprenticeship loans, despite Business Secretary Vince Cable’s (pictured left)… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Agency rule change allows grade three providers to keep taking on trainees Providers that drop to a grade three Ofsted rating will be allowed to keep taking on new trainees under… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Chancellor Osborne buries hopes of college VAT refund Hopes of a VAT refund for colleges look to have finally ended with Education Secretary Michael Gove admitting his… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Nothing like a damehood for Asha West Nottinghamshire College principal Asha Khemka (pictured) tops the FE and skills sector’s representation on the New Year Honours… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News FE Week most read news in 2013 FE Week is a printed newspaper and every edition (along with supplements) is sent to subscribers. If you do… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Tributes to late union leader and college lecturer John McCormack Warm tributes have been paid to University and College Union (UCU) vice president John McCormack, who died on Friday… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Loans company awaiting orders to stop processing ‘dropped’ 24+ apprenticeship applications The Student Loans Company is continuing to process FE loans for apprenticeships while it awaits government orders that the… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Delay hopes raised on ‘painful’ funding cut for 18-year-olds’ education A “painful” funding cut to 18-year-olds’ full-time education that drew cross-FE sector opposition could be delayed. Education Secretary Michael Gove… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Business Secretary Vince Cable confirms ‘dropping’ of apprenticeship FE loans Business Secretary Vince Cable has exclusively confirmed to FE Week that the government is “dropping” the troubled 24+ advanced… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Government reveals first round of ‘practical A-levels’ with 142 Tech-levels The first tranche of business-backed Tech-levels to be counted in new-look 16 to 19 performance tables has been announced…. Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y Newer 1 741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 829 Older Must read 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 1w Shane Chowen 1w 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo 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 5mo Billy Camden 5mo
