News Kirklees College “overjoyed” by good Ofsted report A principal has taken a Yorkshire college from an “inadequate” to a “good” Ofsted grading after downsizing staff and… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Camping courier apprenticeships get short shrift The National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) has been continuing to advertise adult apprenticeships of less than a year, months after… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Landmark decision on under-16s Colleges will be able to directly recruit full-time 14 to 16-year-olds for the first time from the start of… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Job losses as LSIS faces closure As many as 162 people face losing their jobs after the government’s confirmation that the Learning and Skills Improvement… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Year-end ILR data deadline shifts The deadline for Individual Learner Records (ILR) returns could be brought forward by three weeks in 2013 to the… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News LEPs get go-ahead to grant charter status The government has given Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) “sign-off” on granting colleges and training providers chartered status. Skills Minister… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Success rate report errors continue The government’s Data Service has today, Thursday 13 December, published inaccurate Qualification Success Rate (QSR) reports for the second… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News One in four adults ‘struggles’ with maths One in four adults has the maths skills of a nine-year-old or worse and struggles with the most basic… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News LSIS funding to cease as chair plans legacy strategy The government has confirmed the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) will stop receiving funding from August 2013. The news… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Exclusive: Colleges given green light to recruit full-time 14 and 15 year olds FE Week can exclusively reveal that the Minister for Skills (above) has written to two members of the 14-16 College… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News FE welcomes £270m cash injection The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, which announced £270m of new capital money for FE, has been celebrated as a “big… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Richard Review angers AELP A review of apprenticeships that called for workplace tax breaks has been angrily rejected by the Association of Employment… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y Newer 1 780 781 782 783 784 785 786 787 788 789 790 829 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
