News Traineeship plan revealed Plans for a new training scheme to equip young people with “the confidence, skills and experience needed to find… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Uncertainty warning over apprentice loans The Shadow FE Minister has described it as “deeply alarming” that government-commissioned research says apprentices do not understand how… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Provider contract to be cut short amid debt claim The Skills Funding Agency is tearing up an £800,000 training contract with a Hertfordshire-based provider amid claim the firm… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Pearson puts 560 staff at jobs risk Hundreds of FE workers are facing redundancy after Pearson announced it was planning to close an adult education branch… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News New chair Stott starts with AoC new governors’ chair has been appointed at the Association of Colleges after John Bingham stepped down following six years… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News No more funding for qualifications, warns SFA Providers and employers could be set to lose funding for qualifications in a clampdown on awarding organisations that don’t… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Fears over new apprenticeship code A new code of conduct at the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) for dealing with queries about providers has sparked… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Government reveals plans for traineeships Plans for a new training scheme to equip young people with the “confidence, skills and experience needed to find work” has… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News Hundreds of jobs at risk as Pearson announces closure of adult education business More than 550 staff are facing an uncertain future after Pearson announced it was dropping its UK adult education… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y News ‘Alarming’ SFA £91m overpayment Providers were overpaid £91m in the past academic year, the Skills Funding Agency has revealed. Kim Thorneywork, the agency’s… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News Limited marketing ‘potentially disastrous’ A shadow minister has said that the lack of a “proper” national marketing budget to inform mature students of… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y News SFA crackdown finds no subcontractors to list A promised list of banned subcontractors, due out last November, has no one to go on it. In August,… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y Newer 1 765 766 767 768 769 770 771 772 773 774 775 815 Older Must read 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 3w Jessica Hill 3w Long read, Prison education Long read The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release ‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’ Jessica Hill 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe Anviksha Patel 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Colleges Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying… Anviksha Patel 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo T Levels NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students Anviksha Patel 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo