News Apprentice starts for 16 to 18 keep falling The continual downward slide in the numbers of under-19s taking up apprenticeships is “substantial” and “worrying”, Junior Shadow Education… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News And they’re off…Team UK are bid farewell and good luck After months of grueling training, selection heats, pressure testing and tears of both sadness and joy; Team UK were… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Downing Street send-off for UK’s WorldSkills competitors Number 10 Downing Street got a visit from the cream of the UK’s vocational learners before they jetted off… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Team UK going for gold More than 200,000 contestants and supporters from across the world will descend on the East-Central German city of Leipzig… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Yorkshire students cleared of sex charges Three men have been cleared of sexually assaulting a Yorkshire college student. They were acquitted at Hull Crown Court… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Foundation appoints first board members The Education and Training Foundation has named its first board members. The seven men and women who will help… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News £400,000 pay-off to bosses angers union London college bosses have been accused of “double standards” amid claims that former senior managers got pay-offs totalling more… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News SFA parachutes £15m in to K College A struggling Kent college that is being broken up following a “failed merger” owes the Skills Funding Agency at… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News EFA ‘loses’ £20m to private providers Private training providers were overpaid around £20m last year by the Education Funding Agency (EFA), FE Week can exclusively… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Traineeships extension to 19 to 24-year-olds in Spending Review The government has announced it will be extending the traineeship programme to cover 19 to 24-year-olds as part of… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Government to ‘radically reduce’ work experience health and safety red tape The government plans to revise health and safety red tape to make it easier for employers to take on… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Solving the merger mystery A proposed college merger in the Midlands made the FE Week news pages earlier this year after the intervention… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y Newer 1 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759 815 Older Must read 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 3w Jessica Hill 3w 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
