News Will 12 week apprentices ever be derailed? Train’d Up is the latest provider to be advertsing 12 week apprenticeships. The Skills Funding Agency has allocated Train’d… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Youth unemployment ‘never’ higher The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have published the September edition of their Labour Market Statistics, and the summary… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News DfE considers first four 16-19 free schools It has emerged that four 16-19 Free Schools have been proposed. Last May the Department for Education (DfE) announced… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News SFA to take personal assets from directors of fraudulent providers The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has new powers allowing them to take personal assets which belong to the directors… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Where are the 16-18 year-olds? Survey of more than 100 colleges reveals shocking student shortfalls Colleges are facing a significant 16-18 recruitment shortfall, a… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Not-for-profit salaries ~ you decide… FE Week has been taking a look at the accounts of two similarly sized not-for-profit awarding bodies. These figures… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Learndirect aims to improve job prospects for 10,000 people Learndirect has launched Make It Count Week to help improve the nation’s job prospects. Aiming to inspire and encourage… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News McVitie’s man is Rep of the Year A union member has taken home a top award for introducing hundreds of colleagues to learning. USDAW member Jonathan… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Group adds to Careers Service debate A membership body which represents 27 further education colleges has called on the government to think again on the future… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News Latest apprenticeship policy slammed The Shadow Minister for Further Education and Skills, Gordon Marsden, has hit out at a Government policy designed to… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News City & Guilds allocated more than £8m for 25,000 Asda apprentices The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has allocated more than £8m to City & Guilds in order to deliver 25,000… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y News 12 week apprenticeships still advertised Despite increased criticism in what the Chief Executive of the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) called ‘hot-housing’, many short NVQ… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y Newer 1 819 820 821 822 823 824 825 826 827 828 829 Older Must read 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 1w Shane Chowen 1w 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 4w Anviksha Patel 4w 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo 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 5mo Billy Camden 5mo
