News Cash boost on out-of-favour qualifications Funding for a host of politically unpopular workplace qualifications is set to rise, with payments for one course rocketing… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Provider challenges new-look inspection One of the first Ofsted inspections under the new common inspection framework is to be disputed. Merseyside-based Central Training,… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Heseltine questions funding agency’s future A wide-ranging report from the Tory grandee Lord Heseltine (right) questions the role of the Skills Funding Agency, instead… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News New courses bypass the regulator The government has allowed new adult English and maths qualifications to be funded without the usual approval of an… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Apprenticeship highs and lows Apprentice numbers in engineering and construction have plummeted while management apprenticeships have rocketed 45 per cent. Engineering, based on… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News New report critical of government’s education divide The government’s departmental split over education responsibility has been branded “damaging and artificial” in a new report from the… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Lead provider that had £3.3m of Skills Funding Agency cash ‘ceases trading’ An Essex-based lead provider that was allocated nearly £2m of Skills Funding Agency cash last academic year has ceased… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Subcontracting probe uncovers ‘poor value for money’ management fees An Ofsted probe into subcontracting has uncovered lead contractors charging management fees “as a way of generating income for… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News FE Guild go ahead for Association of Colleges The Association of Colleges (AoC) has won government approval to “take forward” its proposals for an FE Guild. The… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Elmfield Training dishes out cash to Morrisons The provider behind the UK’s biggest apprenticeship programme has defended handing over taxpayers’ cash to the firm whose staff… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Dozens of providers exempt from rule Forty providers are exempt from funding rules that ban introductory apprenticeships where more than 10 per cent of learners… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Job losses as Skillsfinder UK Training goes in to administration A national training provider with nearly £2.5m of contracts last year has gone into administration with the loss of… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y Newer 1 771 772 773 774 775 776 777 778 779 780 781 815 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
