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 News New FE Guild chair looks to technology The chair of the FE Guild steering group has revealed to FE Week why he would make it an… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Hoyle wants schools ‘penalised’ Schools where pupils fail to reach A to C standard in GCSE maths and English should be penalised by… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News VAT plans will dent adult apprenticeships Training experts say adults will be put off apprenticeships after the government announcement that training providers must charge VAT… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Twigg: You’ve snatched our Tech Bacc The Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Stephen Twigg, has accused Skills Minister Matthew Hancock of “stealing the idea… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News AELP members respond to Richard Review with ‘anger’ The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) today responded to the Richard Review of Apprenticeships. See their response… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Learner voices at heart of 157 Group publication The 157 Group has published ‘a collection of ten learner voices’, compiled in collaboration with the National Association of… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Principal of Leeds City College to be chair of 157 Group FE Week can reveal that today Peter Roberts (pictured), principal of Leeds City College, has been unanimously elected as… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Skills Commission search for a ‘Google College’ future A group of cross-party MPs and leading figures from the further education sector have called on multinational companies and colleges to… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News College principal appointed as AoC deputy chief executive A new deputy chief executive has been appointed to the Association of Colleges (AoC). Gill Clipson, principal of Amersham… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y Newer 1 782 783 784 785 786 787 788 789 790 791 792 830 Older Must read Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 1d Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 1d 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 3w Shane Chowen 3w 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Next 3 stories 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 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
