News Providers ‘anxious’ over growth cash Training providers said they could be left thousands of pounds “out-of-pocket” after the government unexpectedly doubled functional skills rates…. FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Clawback ‘possible’ on £91m overpayment Providers who shared in a £91m Skills Funding Agency overpayment could yet be asked to hand back some of… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Union strike threat over new dismissals A bitter dispute over the sacking of lecturers at a Midlands college looks set to worsen. The University and… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Audit exposes ‘£40m’ ESF error European funding could be at risk after a government audit uncovered “potentially” £40m-worth of errors over money dished out… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News College gets £2.2m funding immunity A failing London college was allowed to sidestep official funding rules to keep a £2.2m overpayment as it merged… Nick Linford 13y Nick Linford 13y News Minister in traineeship web launch Further education Minister Matthew Hancock (above right) took part in his first webinar to launch a government discussion paper on… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y 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 13y FE Week Reporter 13y 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 13y FE Week Reporter 13y 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 13y FE Week Reporter 13y 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 13y FE Week Reporter 13y 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 13y FE Week Reporter 13y 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 13y FE Week Reporter 13y Newer 1 778 779 780 781 782 783 784 785 786 787 788 829 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