News Talks to address apprenticeship concerns Apprenticeship providers plan conference as criticism mounts over numerous “worthless” delivery models Training providers have called for talks on… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Department for Education launch 16-19 Funding Formula Review The Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove has launched a consultation to reform and simplify the ‘16-19 funding… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News UCT sells Ufi Limited to Lloyds TSB Development Capital (LDC) The Ufi Charitable Trust (UCT) has sold part of its business to Lloyds TSB Development Capital (LDC) for £40… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Union warns of lost Bombardier apprenticeships Around 250 young people will be affected by lost apprenticeships and engineering jobs at Bombardier, a union has warned…. FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News WorldSkills London 2011: The people who make it happen It takes a lot of people to run the globe’s largest skills competition – but WorldSkills London 2011 will… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Mail on Sunday on ‘the great apprentice jobs racket’ Today the Mail on Sunday published an article which was highly critical of the growth in apprenticeships, particularly at… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Good luck with R02 Colleges and other providers are being reminded that the first ‘required’ Individualised Learner Record (ILR) is due by 6pm… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News No change to MLPs The SFA and YPLA have confirmed that there will be no change to Minimum Levels of Performance (MLP). The… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News No delay to simplification of adult funding formula The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) is rumoured to be shortly announcing a delay to the full roll-out of a… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News The SFA survey says… The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) have published the results from their first College and Training Organisation Survey. Responses were… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News FE colleges could be “left to stand on their own two feet” Government reforms could see colleges given greater freedoms under plans to deregulate further education (FE). The Education Bill, which… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Lifelong Learning Accounts launched without a launch Lifelong Learning Accounts were made available last week despite no formal announcement and minimal publicity from the Department… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y Newer 1 807 808 809 810 811 812 813 814 815 816 817 819 Older Must read 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 2w Jessica Hill 2w 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo Long read, Prison education Long read The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release ‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’ Jessica Hill 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo Next 3 stories Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 3mo Billy Camden 3mo Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe Anviksha Patel 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo Colleges Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying… Anviksha Patel 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo