News MP calls for bankers’ bonuses to provide Apprenticeships for jobless youngsters A Labour MP is urging the government to provide apprenticeships for jobless youngsters with small businesses – by using… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Cuts in FE to ‘hit women and black and ethnic minorities hardest’ Current and planned cuts in further education will hit women and black and ethnic minorities harder than most according to the Woman’s… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Funding agency fears over fraud The Skills Funding Agency has promised a crackdown on fraud and misuse of public money in the FE and… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Morrisons, Elmfield and the over-25 apprentices Morrisons boasts that it is the UK’s biggest provider of apprenticeships, although in reality the funding is claimed from… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Surge in the over-25s sees record rise in apprentices The Government’s apprenticeship recruitment target of 203,200 for the financial year to March 2011 was exceeded by 54,000, John… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Peter Jones Academy hitting the headlines BBC Dragon, entrepreneur and now further education celebrity, Peter Jones has been bringing FE into the nationals this week… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Justifying the subcontracting top-slice Colleges are increasingly at risk of being percieved to be ripping off partners by “top-slicing” 30 per cent or… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Daily Mirror probes subcontracting “scandal” The award-winning Daily Mirror Investigations team, Andrew Penman and Nick Sommerlad, this week launched an in-depth probe into the… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News LSIS Leading the Learner Voice Award winners in full Last night was LSIS’s annual ‘Leading the Learner Voice Awards’. The awards were created to recognise the contributions that… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News FE wears the cloak of invisibility at education festival The second annual Sunday Times Education Festival was held at the much lauded Wellington College on the Surrey /… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News 16-18 funding continues The Young People’s Learning Agency has confirmed they will, in exceptional circumstances, continue to fund non-accredited provision for 16-18… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Ofqual disappointed The head of qualifications regulator, Ofqual, has written to all awarding organisations following a series of errors in AS-level… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y Newer 1 817 818 819 820 821 822 823 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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 4mo Billy Camden 4mo Colleges 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 5mo Anviksha Patel 5mo
