News Exclusive interview with BIS committee’s chair With the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee report highlighting a number of apprenticeship issues, FE Week deputy editor… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Group chair appointed to steer FE Guild An independent chair has been appointed as proposals to create an FE Guild take shape. David Hughes, chief executive… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Teachers unskilled to provide careers advice The fifth annual Colleges Week has kicked off with the publication of a report that shows schoolteachers and parents… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Where have all the students gone? More than a million students could not be traced by researchers wanting to find out what happened to them… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Strength at the top is key to improvement concludes Ofsted Strong, effective leadership is one of the key features of success, suggests Ofsted’s How Colleges Improve report. Winning colleges… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Colleges undecided on ‘Trip Advisor’ website Providers are remaining on the fence about Ofted’s Trip Advisor-style Learner View website. The website, which cost £65,000 to… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Short shrift for new-look Ofsted reports Joy Mercer, AoC Jan Webber, ASCL Reports of inspections under… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Urgent reform to apprenticeships needed, says BIS Committee An 11-month government inquiry into apprenticeships has recommended a host of changes, including “closer scrutiny, careful monitoring or even… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Skills Funding Agency ‘assured’ over Elmfield Training payments to Morrisons A system of payments from the provider behind the UK’s biggest apprenticeship programme to the firm whose staff it… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Cash boost on out-of-favour qualifications Funding for a host of politically unpopular workplace qualifications is set to rise, with payments for one course rocketing… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Provider challenges new-look inspection One of the first Ofsted inspections under the new common inspection framework is to be disputed. Merseyside-based Central Training,… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Heseltine questions funding agency’s future A wide-ranging report from the Tory grandee Lord Heseltine (right) questions the role of the Skills Funding Agency, instead… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y Newer 1 796 797 798 799 800 801 802 803 804 805 806 841 Older Must read Colleges, Long read Exclusive 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo 16-19 Long read 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo Next 3 stories 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 3mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 3mo 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 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo
