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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter


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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
FE Week Reporter
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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
FE Week Reporter
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Unemployment ‘free-for-all’

Leaked Skills Funding Agency email reveals more late policy changes, but will colleges refund the fees? Colleges will for…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Nine projects secure £4.6m Collaboration and Shared Services Grant

The 157 Group and Association of Colleges (AoC) have announced nine projects which will benefit from the Collaboration and…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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157 Group publish apprenticeship policy paper

Apprenticeships are most effectively delivered by colleges working in partnership with employers, according to a new policy paper. The…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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AoC research finds half let down by careers advice

Calls are being made for guaranteed face-to-face careers guidance in the wake of a startling report. Research released today…

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