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Government’s £20k carrot for college teachers

Graduates will be offered grants of up to £20,000 to teach at FE colleges, Business Secretary Vince has announced….

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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New FE professionalism body launched

The FE sector’s new professionalism and standards organisation, the Education and Training Foundation, launched today. The body, funded by…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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New principal hopes for turnaround at ‘inadequate’ City College Coventry

A new principal has been appointed at City College Coventry just months after its disastrous inspection report. Former City of…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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SFA to pay up to £900 per work placement

The Skills Funding Agency has announced rates from £500 to £900 for work placements in the government’s new traineeship…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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FE Commissioner selection ongoing

The new FE Commissioner is yet to be appointed despite interviews by officials from the Department for Business, Innovation…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Skills call on LEPs accepted by government

The government has accepted a recommendation that skills should be a core priority for Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPS). The…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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Ten colleges with half billion pound total income join forces

Ten colleges in the North West have joined forces to form a joint venture company boasting a combined income…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Education Funding Agency to publish 16 to 18 payments

The Education Funding Agency is to start publishing information on the value of providers’ 16 to 18 delivery, FE…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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EFA name first seven colleges allowed to recruit full time 14 and 15-year-olds

Seven colleges will be taking up the opportunity, for the first time, to directly enrol full-time 14 and 15 year…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Apprenticeships reforms ‘precisely what’s needed’

Proposals to reform the apprenticeship funding system have been welcomed by former Dragons’ Den investor Doug Richard, nine months…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Government says sorry to college

A Dorset college that was wrongly labelled as under-performing in official statistics has won an apology. Kingston Maurward College,…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Household names get SFA budget cuts

Government funding budgets for training at major UK firms has been slashed, new figures have shown. Firms such as…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford

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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
Long read, Prison education

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
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, FE Commissioner

Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal

Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal

Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
T Levels

NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure

Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel