News First FE Commissioner job results in administered status for K College after Ofsted inadequate grade Troubled K College has been put into administered status after becoming the first college to come under scrutiny from… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Optimism in Ofsted report comes with warning of providers not meeting local economy needs Local employer needs are not being met by the FE and skills sector, according to this year’s Ofsted annual… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Ofsted annual report Q&A with Matthew Coffey The Ofsted director of FE and skills spoke with FE Week deputy editor at the launch of the education… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Cut to 18-year-old funding rate branded ‘dangerous’ Providers stand to have a huge hole blown in their finances after the government announced it would slash the… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Progress update for the ETF at the end of 2013 The Education and Training Foundation will be celebrating its first Christmas in the coming weeks. Rebecca Cooney looks back… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Agency probe looms over troubled college The Skills Funding Agency is poised to investigate as it awaits the results of a Newham College investigation into… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Ex-international footballer barred over apprenticeship claims A former Welsh international footballer is one of four men to have been disqualified from being company directors after… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Awarding organisations withdraw from group membership body Six of the country’s biggest awarding bodies have withdrawn from the Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB). City & Guilds,… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Four more accused in new A4e Aspire to Inspire fraud allegations Four more people have been charged over fraud allegations at welfare-to-work provider A4e. It brings the total number of… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Learners’ own jobs could get study programme funding Learners’ part-time paid jobs could be publicly-funded as part of the new study programmes for 16 to 19-year-olds, FE… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Apprenticeship ‘loans in line for chop’ The troubled 24+ advanced learning loans system for apprenticeships could be axed after just 404 people applied for funding… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Optimism in Ofsted report comes with warning of providers not meeting local economy needs Local employer needs are not being met by the FE and skills sector, according to this year’s Ofsted annual… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y Newer 1 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 829 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