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Adult Basic Skills qualifications to be scrapped

Basic skills qualifications in numeracy and literacy for adults will cease to be funded for new starts from August….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Holt heads-up employer-led review of apprenticeships

Social entrepreneur and jeweller Jason Holt is to take charge of an employer-led review into how businesses can be…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Banks ‘invest’ in more than 1,500 apprentices

Three high street banks are launching new apprenticeship schemes to try and help young people launch a career in…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Childcare supported for at least one more year

A scheme which supports thousands of teenage parents in further education has been reprieved – at least for a…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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AELP backs minimum duration for young apprentices at end of #NAW2012

The new minimum length of delivery for all apprentices aged 16 to 18 has been backed by the head…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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WorldSkills UK – The Skills Show announced by John Hayes MP

The skills minister announced a UK successor to the WorldSkills London 2011 competition at the House of Commons last…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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EMA replacement is inadequate and under-funded, says Barnardo’s

Young learners from disadvantaged backgrounds are being let down by the 16-19 Bursary Fund because it is inadequate, inconsistent…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Jayde Kirkup is the FE Week & Me competition winner

Congratulations Jayde Kirkup! We asked students to send in a 500-word article explaining what brought them to college, along…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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NAO’s verdict on adult apprenticeships

Funding rates are unreliable The funding rates used to pay training providers for delivering an apprenticeship are not based…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Vocational quals counted out

Concern has been raised at the government’s expulsion of thousands of qualifications from school league tables. While stating that…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Employability qualifications are just the job

Increasing unemployment is fuelling a sharp rise in demand for short employability qualifications, figures obtained by FE Week reveal….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Apprenticeship success rates highest ever

Apprenticeship success rates have risen for the fourth consecutive year across all age groups, according to new government data….

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