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Fall in unemployed adults learning

The chief executive of NIACE has said some of the results of the 2012 Adult Participation in Learning Survey…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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The K College catalogue

The provision, debts and estate of a troubled Kent college being split up and sold off in pieces have…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Commissioner specification ‘prejudices’ FE hopefuls

College leaders hoping to play a part in the FE Commissioner hit squad have been put “at a disadvantage”…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Rethink call on traineeship rules

The leader of a group representing 27 large colleges has called on the government to loosen rules on who…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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NUS gets some learner satisfaction

The lack of learner presence within a new FE body that will set professional standards across the sector has…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Principal leaves after Ofsted blow

The principal of City College Coventry is to leave his job after the Skills Funding Agency demanded “fundamental changes”…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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College wins Morrisons’ contract

The contract to deliver the country’s biggest apprenticeship programme has been won by NCG (formerly Newcastle College Group). The…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Coventry principal to leave after Ofsted inadequate

The principal of City College Coventry, labelled inadequate by Ofsted, is to leave as soon an interim replacement can be…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Adult college ‘changes lives’

Working Men’s College, a specialist designated institution in North London, is celebrating an ‘outstanding’ Ofsted grade. Rebecca Cooney reports …

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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NAS investigates apprentices’ hours

The National Apprenticeship Service is investigating claims that apprentices are regularly working “over and above their contracted hours”. UnionLearn,…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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New website misses national providers

A newly-launched apprenticeship website aimed at employers could be leaving out national providers, it has been claimed. A mandatory…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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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