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SFA lifts blanket ban on new Elmfield learners after minister orders Ofsted revisit

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has lifted its blanket ban on new learners at Elmfield Training after an early…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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New FE faces for Labour

The new Labour FE faces are Liam Byrne, who takes Gordon Marsden’s place, and Rushanara Ali, who takes Tristram…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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It’s farewell to Marsden as Hunt rises to the top in Labour reshuffle

Former Shadow Skills Minister Gordon Marsden (Pictured at FE Week HQ for a roundtable on FE loans)  has paid…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Ofsted finds significant prison shortfalls

Ofsted FE and skills director Matthew Coffey has delivered a damning verdict on prison education and training in England…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Minister attacks FE for allowing learners to ‘give up’

Further education leaders have lined up to defend the sector after Liberal Democrat Schools Minister David Laws claimed new…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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MP ‘desperately sad’ over numeracy and literacy failings

Poor adult numeracy and literacy levels in England and Northern Ireland were the subject of a House of Commons…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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Shortlisted college eyes-up K College degrees

One of the eight organisations shortlisted to take over the troubled K College has told FE Week it is…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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SFA warned about its unpaid traineeship post

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has been warned about “exploiting” young people, after it advertised an unpaid traineeship vacancy…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Foundation announces first round of tenders

The Education and Training Foundation has released its first invitations to tender under a new competitive bidding process. A…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Minister writes to new apprentices on pay

Skills Minister Matthew Hancock has written a letter for every apprentice telling them what they should be earning —…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Byrne replaces Marsden as Shadow Skills Minister

Liam Byrne has succeeded Gordon Marsden in the Labour Shadow Education team, taking on the role as Shadow Universities…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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From college classroom to Shadow FE Minister

Bethnal Green and Bow MP Rushanara Ali has replaced Tristram Hunt as the FE and skills Labour Shadow Education…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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Shane Chowen
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DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

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As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica…

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Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is…

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Billy Camden