News

BIS plan to cut £300m FE and skills red tape shaves just 2 pc off costs for providers, audit office finds

A government plan to reduce £300m of FE and skill bureaucracy has come under fire from Public Accounts Committee...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Employers shamed for underpaying workers — including apprentices

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has named and shamed 25 employers for failing to pay the...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Bulletin

Looking back 100 years to when apprentices could be jailed for ‘idleness’

New research by a Lincoln university professor of history, commissioned by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA), shows how apprenticeships...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Bulletin

Zoo license granted to college

Bicton College has been granted a zoo licence allowing it to show its collection of exotic animals to the...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Chancellor hands employers National Insurance break for apprentices aged 24 and below and promises £20m for careers advice

Chancellor George Osborne today announced that employers will no longer have to pay national insurance contributions (NIC) on apprentices aged...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Bulletin

Learners enter ‘Dragons’ Den’

Level three business students from South Cheshire College pitched their business ideas to a Dragons’ Den-style panel of business...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Bulletin

Giant mural commemorates Falklands War

A giant mural telling the story of the Falklands War was created by A-level art and design students at the...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Bulletin

Green award for ‘E-Collegey’ scheme

Uxbridge College took the Best Newcomer title in the national Green Gown Awards which recognise sustainability initiatives by education...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Bulletin

Ex-Death Row inmate tells how studying helped clear his name

A former Death Row inmate told City College Norwich learners how studying behind bars helped clear his name. American-born...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter