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Foundation appoints permanent chief executive

A policy director at the Department for Education (DfE) will become the Education and Training Foundation’s (ETF) first permanent…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Government publishes its ‘radical and far-reaching’ apprenticeship plan

The government has this morning confirmed in a newly-published implementation plan that it would put apprenticeship design in England in the hands…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Fresh concerns raised over Barnfield College

Teaching unions have raised further concerns about the governance and management of a troubled college which is being investigated by the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Association of Colleges calls for action on funding software

The Association of Colleges’ boss has written to the Skills Funding Agency expressing concerns over software funding delays and…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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New course will prepare FE lecturers to teach GCSE English

A new training course is set to be launched to prepare FE lecturers for a massive expansion in students…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Elmfield to ‘take steps to put the company into administration’

Elmfield Training has confirmed that its “directors have taken steps to protect the company through an administration process”. In…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Fury at SFA funding software delays

Funding software delays at the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) sparked fury in the FE sector. A delay in supplying…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Shadow Skills Minister quizzes government on apprenticeship drop

Newly appointed Shadow Skills Minister Liam Bryne quizzed his opposite number Matthew Hancock over the drop in 16 to…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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SFA funding software delay as provider data deadline looms

Providers will have just eight working days to check and correct their 2013/14 academic year data as the Skills…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Foundation invites bids to support traineeship delivery

The Education and Training Foundation has called for organisations to bid to develop support programmes for providers delivering traineeships….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Education certificates firm accused of corrupt payments in Africa

An Eastbourne-based firm that prints qualification certificates is facing allegations of corrupt payments made in Africa. Smith & Ouzman…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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College hit with ‘poor financial management’ claim

An allegation of poor financial management at a Bedfordshire college, along with concerns about “extensive” staff restructuring and redundancies, has been…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford

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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
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