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12y News Awarding organisations withdraw from group membership body Six of the country’s biggest awarding bodies have withdrawn from the Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB).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 News Funding cut in pipeline for full-time 18-year-olds as Spending Review bites The Education Funding Agency has announced plans to save £150m by paying 17.5 per cent less for the full-time… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Employers failing the Ofsted challenge — are they fit to take over skills agenda? The move towards greater employer involvement in FE and skills is gaining momentum. But with employer providers having come… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Exempted — trainees freed from Job Seeker’s Allowance 16-hour rule Traineeships are to be exempted from a benefits rule that was “compromising” the programme. The Department for Work and… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Confirmed — employers will take ownership of apprenticeships in a new HMRC funding system Apprenticeship funding will be redirected from providers to employers — but they will have to make a “significant” cash… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y Newer 1 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 831 Older Must read 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 6d Shane Chowen 6d Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 2w Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 2w 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo
