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Inspectors get college careers advice guidance

Ofsted inspectors have been issued new guidance on judging colleges’ provision of independent careers guidance. According to the education…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Minister takes ‘full responsibility’ as SFA software issues go on

Skills Minister Matthew Hancock has apologised for the Skills Funding Agency’s (SFA) new payment software fiasco after initially seeming…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Administered college gets ‘direct’ role in sale of provision

Troubled K College is back on the market — this time with its own corporation playing a greater role…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Teenage participation behind new DfE probe by audit office

The Department for Education (DfE) is facing a second National Audit Office probe, with efforts to increase participation in…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Loans system ‘leads to 18 pc’ fall in learner numbers

The FE loans system could lead to a drop in learner numbers of up to 18 per cent, a…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Questions over need for new HS2 rail college

Government plans for the first new FE college in 20 years, to train engineers for the £50bn high speed…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Colleges hit by 18-year-old funding rate cut far worse than school sixth forms, government assessment reveals

Colleges will be hit by a controversial funding rate cut for 18-year-olds far worse than school sixth forms, a much-anticipated…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Providers ‘at fault’ for new funding system fiasco says Skills Minister Matthew Hancock

Skills Minister Matthew Hancock has laid the blame for the Skills Funding Agency’s new payment software fiasco on providers’ “own…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Leading London college tumbles to inadequate

One of London’s largest FE colleges, and a former outstanding one, has crashed to a grade four Ofsted rating….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Cash queries over maths qual

The government unveiled plans for a new level three qualification to keep young people studying maths until 18, but…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Providers underpaid on ASB by £61.8m

Just over half of all providers in England were not paid for all the work they carried out last…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Hancock faces MPs’ wrath over DfE cut

Members of the Education Select Committee could probe controversial government plans to cut funding for full-time education for 18-year-olds….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

Must read

16-19

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
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
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