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SFA warned over plans to stop qualifications funding

The Skills Funding Agency “risks destabilising the system” with plans to stop paying out for more than 1,000 qualifications,…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Providers to get transitional funding protection from new system

Providers are to be protected from potentially huge drops in funding when a new payments regime is introduced from…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Data for course directory to be rated

Providers will be scored on information they submit to the National Careers Service (NCS) online course provider directory in…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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FE Minister in college merger warning

Further education Minister Matthew Hancock has written to all governors and principals with a warning on mergers just weeks…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Ofsted clashes with AoC over ‘consequence of failure’

Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw has clashed with the Association of Colleges (AoC) over the issue of failing colleges…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Government ‘accepts principle’ of Lord Heseltine’s single funding pot

The government has already “accepted the principle” of Lord Heseltine’s single funding pot idea for Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs),…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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Exclusive: Jobs hope with agreement on Pearson in Practice

The future of around 150 FE jobs might have been saved after a deal was struck “in principle” to…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Dates confirmed for Skills Show 2013

The Skills Show, the UK’s largest skills and careers event, returns to the NEC Birmingham from 14-16 November 2013…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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A capital in crisis?

Tumbling inspection grades over the last two years have begged the question ‘is London learning?’ Chris Henwood looks at…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Sector in tribute to outgoing chief

The retiring head of further education and skills investment at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has told…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Warning over Heseltine’s single funding pot for LEPs

Lord Heseltine’s proposal to hand-over the entire skills budget to Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) could become a reality with…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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The AELP calls for funding change

Independent learning providers are calling for an end to a dual funding system that sees them denied overpayments while…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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Colleges, Long read

Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail

More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read

Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching

In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Young people

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
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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
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
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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
Shane Chowen