News 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News 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… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News 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… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y Newer 1 804 805 806 807 808 809 810 811 812 813 814 831 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 7d Shane Chowen 7d 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