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Study suggests experience of paid work while in full-time education increases job chances

Young people who experience a workplace environment while in full-time education are far more likely to land a job…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Benefits concerns over traineeship hours

The government has been pressed to launch an “urgent review” of traineeships over fears the programme could hit learner…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

SFA publishes £283m of inter-lead subcontracting for first time

Lead providers took on nearly £300m of subcontracted provision last academic year, Skills Funding Agency (SFA) figures have revealed….

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

A principal first for Gateshead College

New Gateshead College principal and chief executive Judith Doyle said she was “thrilled” and “proud” to be taking up…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Listen to BBC Radio 4 Today programme discuss FE recruitment at 14

At 06:50 this morning the BBC Radio 4 Today programme interviewed Mike Hopkins, Principal of Middlesbrough College, and Professor…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

FE sector launches self-improvement body

A ceremonial handing over of the Education and Training Foundation’s certificate of incorporation sealed the new FE sector self-improvement…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


News

Minister takes to Twitter to say ‘thanks’ as LSIS programmes end

The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) programmes and support officially ended last night, and key sector figures took…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

AoC on lookout for “good” zero-hour contracts

The Association of Colleges (AoC) is on the hunt for “good” examples of zero-hour contracts amid an investigation into…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Prison warning for college spending officer

A Lancashire college purchasing officer could be facing a spell behind bars after she used a work credit card…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

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
News

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
News

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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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