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 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 Newer 1 783 784 785 786 787 788 789 790 791 792 793 831 Older Must read News Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the… Shane Chowen 7d Shane Chowen 7d 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 2w Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 2w 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo
