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Tesco pulls ad for short courses

Multinational supermarket firm Tesco has pulled its advertising for nine-month apprenticeships following intervention from FE Week. The company, which…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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FE Week’s most viewed articles in 2012

FE Week has quickly built a reputation for being a high quality weekly printed newspaper, but we also publish many of…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Providers no longer penalised for learners finding jobs

FE providers will no longer be penalised for learners on benefits leaving a course because they have obtained a…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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College refuses staff pay rise

Newcastle College has been branded “Scrooge” after refusing staff a nationally recommended 0.7 per cent pay rise. The University…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Kirklees College “overjoyed” by good Ofsted report

A principal has taken a Yorkshire college from an “inadequate” to a “good” Ofsted grading after downsizing staff and…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Camping courier apprenticeships get short shrift

The National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) has been continuing to advertise adult apprenticeships of less than a year, months after…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Landmark decision on under-16s

Colleges will be able to directly recruit full-time 14 to 16-year-olds for the first time from the start of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Job losses as LSIS faces closure

As many as 162 people face losing their jobs after the government’s confirmation that the Learning and Skills Improvement…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Year-end ILR data deadline shifts

The deadline for Individual Learner Records (ILR) returns could be brought forward by three weeks in 2013 to the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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LEPs get go-ahead to grant charter status

The government has given Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) “sign-off” on granting colleges and training providers chartered status. Skills Minister…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Success rate report errors continue

The government’s Data Service has today, Thursday 13 December,  published inaccurate Qualification Success Rate (QSR) reports for the second…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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One in four adults ‘struggles’ with maths

One in four adults has the maths skills of a nine-year-old or worse and struggles with the most basic…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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