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 13y FE Week Reporter 13y 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 13y Nick Linford 13y 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 13y Nick Linford 13y 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 13y FE Week Reporter 13y 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 13y FE Week Reporter 13y 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 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Birmingham principal honoured A college principal “hasn’t quite come to terms with the news” that she is now a dame. Dr Christine… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Youngsters stranded by company administration A London-based social enterprise company that worked with young adults to help them to find jobs has gone into… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Tesco pulls ad for short courses Multinational supermarket firm Tesco has pulled its advertising for nine-month apprenticeships following intervention from FE Week. The company, which… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News FE Week’s most viewed articles in 2012 FE Week has quickly built a reputation for being a high quality weekly printed newspaper, but we also publish many of… Nick Linford 13y Nick Linford 13y News Providers no longer penalised for learners finding jobs FE providers will no longer be penalised for learners on benefits leaving a course because they have obtained a… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News College refuses staff pay rise Newcastle College has been branded “Scrooge” after refusing staff a nationally recommended 0.7 per cent pay rise. The University… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y Newer 1 779 780 781 782 783 784 785 786 787 788 789 829 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
