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Stay of execution for ESOL

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) qualifications will continue to be funded for at least one more year,…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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No accountability for issues in FE, say MPs

There are too many funding organisations in further education of which none take responsibility for cutting red tape, according…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Funding comparison software released by The Data Service

The Data Service, an arm of the Skills Funding Agency (SFA), has today published ‘shadow funding calculations’ in the latest…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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More than 2,000 secret changes to FE Choices

An investigation into changes on FE Choices has found more than 2,000 data records were adjusted without public knowledge….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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SFA auditors assigned to A4e

Auditors at the Skills Funding Agency have been assigned to help A4e carry out a review of some of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Principal supports no-notice inspections

The principal of a college which underwent the first no-notice inspection in FE has praised the piloted scheme. Richard…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Unemployment not free for all

Confusion reigns over who should pay fees The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) say colleges are not allowed to fully-fund…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Lambeth College leaves 157 Group following inspection

A college will not renew membership to the 157 Group amid reports of an ‘inadequate’ Ofsted inspection. Lambeth College,…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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FE loans equality impact assessment delayed

The final impact assessment and equality impact assessment for the proposed FE loans system has been delayed by the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Gazelle group report says colleges need a “complete transformation”

Gazelle group members with Richard Branson at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2012 Further education (FE) colleges needs a “complete…

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FE Week Reporter
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College is ‘outstanding’ after no-notice inspection

The first further education college to be graded under a no-notice inspection has been graded ‘outstanding’. As revealed on Friday…

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FE Week Reporter
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A4e included in preferred prison education bidder list

The preferred bidders for prison education contracts have been revealed by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA). The list has been…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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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
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
Colleges, 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
Jessica Hill
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
Jessica Hill