Opinion

Logistics skills council ‘offered solutions to non-existent problems’

Michael Woodgate considers what went wrong for Skills for Logistics (SfL) with the sector skills council having this month...

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FE Week Reporter
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Creative designs inside and out at Notts college

Creative art students from West Nottinghamshire College can now learn their craft in a new £2.3m facility. The new...

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Opinion

Apprenticeships are the ‘major casualty’ amid funding uncertainty

The government has said more research was needed before it could take its apprenticeship funding reform plans any further....

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FE Week Reporter
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Construction students help the ‘neigh’ bours

There was no horseplay when construction students from East Riding College worked with a local business on a recycling...

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FE Week Reporter
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College staff get on their bikes in memory of colleague

More than £1,000 was raised by a group of cyclists from Weston College in memory of a loved colleague...

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Movers and Shakers

Edition 124: Sue Rimmer, Mike Hopkins, Sean Harford, Alan Birks, Michele Sutton and Norman Cave

South Thames College principal Sue Rimmer has been elected the new chair of the Principals’ Professional Council (PPC). She...

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News

A4e gives assurance that fraudsters ‘don’t work for us anymore’

A4e chief executive Andrew Dutton has revealed that none of the staff who ripped off a Department for Work...

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News

Apprenticeship reform proposals were ‘half-cocked,’ Skills Minister Nick Boles tells MPs

Skills Minister Nick Boles has told the House of Commons Education Select Committee that the government had “gone off half-cock” [sic]...

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News

Should former Barnfield boss Sir Peter hand back FE knighthood after inadequate rating?

Troubled Barnfield College has been described by Ofsted as having “no key strengths” — prompting question marks over whether...

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