News SFA warned over plans to stop qualifications funding The Skills Funding Agency “risks destabilising the system” with plans to stop paying out for more than 1,000 qualifications,… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Providers to get transitional funding protection from new system Providers are to be protected from potentially huge drops in funding when a new payments regime is introduced from… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Data for course directory to be rated Providers will be scored on information they submit to the National Careers Service (NCS) online course provider directory in… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News FE Minister in college merger warning Further education Minister Matthew Hancock has written to all governors and principals with a warning on mergers just weeks… Nick Linford 13y Nick Linford 13y News Ofsted clashes with AoC over ‘consequence of failure’ Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw has clashed with the Association of Colleges (AoC) over the issue of failing colleges… Nick Linford 13y Nick Linford 13y News Government ‘accepts principle’ of Lord Heseltine’s single funding pot The government has already “accepted the principle” of Lord Heseltine’s single funding pot idea for Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs),… Nick Linford 13y Nick Linford 13y News Exclusive: Jobs hope with agreement on Pearson in Practice The future of around 150 FE jobs might have been saved after a deal was struck “in principle” to… Nick Linford 13y Nick Linford 13y News Dates confirmed for Skills Show 2013 The Skills Show, the UK’s largest skills and careers event, returns to the NEC Birmingham from 14-16 November 2013… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News A capital in crisis? Tumbling inspection grades over the last two years have begged the question ‘is London learning?’ Chris Henwood looks at… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Sector in tribute to outgoing chief The retiring head of further education and skills investment at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has told… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Warning over Heseltine’s single funding pot for LEPs Lord Heseltine’s proposal to hand-over the entire skills budget to Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) could become a reality with… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News The AELP calls for funding change Independent learning providers are calling for an end to a dual funding system that sees them denied overpayments while… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y Newer 1 775 776 777 778 779 780 781 782 783 784 785 829 Older Must read Qualifications Exclusive 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 1w Shane Chowen 1w Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 4w Anviksha Patel 4w Colleges, Long read 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo 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 5mo Billy Camden 5mo
