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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
Nick Linford
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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
Nick Linford
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£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
Nick Linford
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
Nick Linford


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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
Nick Linford
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
Nick Linford
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
FE Week Reporter
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Success rates are ‘palpable nonsense’

Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has launched a scathing attack on the FE and skills sector, branding success rates…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Agency losses top £6m mark

More than £6m of Skills Funding Agency cash was written off last year, an increase of nearly 50 per…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Clerks’ course safe with us, says ETF

Governors’ clerks have been assured that their training will continue after the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) closes…

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