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Lead provider that had £3.3m of Skills Funding Agency cash ‘ceases trading’

An Essex-based lead provider that was allocated nearly £2m of Skills Funding Agency cash last academic year has ceased…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Subcontracting probe uncovers ‘poor value for money’ management fees

An Ofsted probe into subcontracting has uncovered lead contractors charging management fees “as a way of generating income for…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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FE Guild go ahead for Association of Colleges

The Association of Colleges (AoC) has won government approval to “take forward” its proposals for an FE Guild. The…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter


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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter

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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
16-19

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
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
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
Qualifications

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
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel