News Elmfield Training dishes out cash to Morrisons The provider behind the UK’s biggest apprenticeship programme has defended handing over taxpayers’ cash to the firm whose staff… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Dozens of providers exempt from rule Forty providers are exempt from funding rules that ban introductory apprenticeships where more than 10 per cent of learners… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Job losses as Skillsfinder UK Training goes in to administration A national training provider with nearly £2.5m of contracts last year has gone into administration with the loss of… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Sharp criticism of ‘limited flexibility’ in the Innovation Code Government measures to help colleges respond to local employment and skills needs have lost the “spirit” of the report… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Review of FE teacher qualifications launched Further education leaders have told of their concerns about new proposals for industry teacher training. A review of teacher… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News SFA U-turn on performance tables Nearly three months after the Skills Funding Agency was challenged over “mysterious” changes to college performance tables, it has… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Provider hits back at ‘unfounded claim’ The boss of an Essex-based training provider has said a local college was refusing to pay its apprenticeship bill… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Firms primed for new status after success on apprentices Two Midland-based training providers have made the shift from delivering apprenticeships for lead providers to dealing directly with the… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Elmfield Training ‘tells 400’ staff their jobs are at risk A training provider that helped deliver one of the UK’s biggest apprenticeship programmes at Morrisons is shedding a third… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Colleges underdeliver by ‘£45m to £60m’ The Association of Colleges (AoC) has estimated that colleges failed to deliver between £45m and £60m of adult provision… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Government figures reveal a ten per cent fall in 16-18 apprenticeships The government has conceded that under 19 apprenticeships were proving a “major challenge” after official figures showed a 10… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Principal quits on day of strike The principal of a Kent College with a £11m budget deficit has quit on the same day as a… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y Newer 1 788 789 790 791 792 793 794 795 796 797 798 831 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 6d Shane Chowen 6d 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