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BIS to review SFA and role of their Chief Executive

Transparency and accountability will be the joint focus of a review launched this week into the Skills Funding Agency…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Colleges to keep left-over funding

Clawback will be waived for providers who have delivered 97 per cent or more of their targets, the Skills…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Careers conference told to step up and get with the programme

Careers guidance professionals were told to step up and get with the programme at the Institute of Careers Guidance…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Train to Gain volumes prove ‘lesson in government-speak’

The number of learners starting workplace learning continues to thrive despite the government’s focus on increasing apprenticeships. The number…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Apprenticeship marketeers doing more for less

Those with a good ear for sound bites would have found it hard to miss the latest campaign to…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Free vocational training for adults criticised

Employers and learners should pay more towards apprenticeships, according to Graham Hoyle. Mr Hoyle, Chief Executive of the Association…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Government protects student governors after heavy NUS lobbying

The Government has reversed its plans to remove the compulsory legal requirement of having two student governors at each…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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New executive director for LSIS

The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) has announced the appointment of Chris Cherry to its senior management team….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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London colleges merge

Two north London colleges officially merged this week in a bid to protect their financial future The merger between…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Study shows one in eight Advanced Level Apprenticeships lead to HE

One in eight young people with an Advanced Level Apprenticeship has gone into higher education, according to figures unveiled…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Review launched into Skills Funding Agency

A review been launched into the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) as part of a Government drive to increase transparency…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Adult apprenticeships triple as youth unemployment soars

New adult apprenticeships have hit a record high, adding to fears that the government skills drive is struggling to…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

Must read

16-19

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

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