News CBI report reveals basic skills deficit Employers remain dissatisfied with school and college leavers’ basic skills according to a report by CBI. Around a third… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News New inspection framework Ofsted have released the new Common Inspection Framework as part of the Handbook for the inspection for further education… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Richard Review interview Entrepreneur Doug Richard is to lead an independent review into the future of the apprenticeship programme in England. The… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Concern over VAT on FE loans Learners taking out an FE loan next year could be forced to pay 20 per cent VAT if they… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Queen’s honour’s list recognises peoples’ work with WorldSkills For the first time the Queen’s birthday honour’s list has recognised people’s work with WorldSkills International. Seven people received… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Principal of Barnfield College receives knighthood Peter Birkett, Principal of Barnfield College, has been awarded a knighthood in the Queens Honours List, announced today. He… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News BIS publishes final impact assessment reports for FE loans The final impact assessment and equality impact assessment reports have been published by the Department for Business, Innovation and… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News SFA £2.3m website hardly used The FE Choices website has been viewed by 6,230 people since it launched in January, figures obtained by FE… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Functional Skills funded for 38 per cent less Providers delivering in the workplace will receive almost 40 per cent less funding when they are forced to switch… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News An ‘outrageous’ mace-use of funds Bradford College has stood by its decision to spend £24,000 on a decorative mace for its graduation ceremonies. The… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Subcontractor hits out at “rip off” management fee The head of a subcontractor has called the high management fees used by some FE colleges a “rip off”…. FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News RTT Group has £3.3m contract terminated Real-Time Training Ltd, which trades under the name RTT Group, has had its £3.3m contract with the Skills Funding… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y Newer 1 785 786 787 788 789 790 791 792 793 794 795 819 Older Must read 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 2w Jessica Hill 2w 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo Next 3 stories 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 3mo Billy Camden 3mo Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe Anviksha Patel 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo Colleges Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying… Anviksha Patel 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo
