News

Former learners compete for champion title

One of these three former learners will be crowned apprentice champion of the year at the Skills Show in...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Cable reveals apprentice reform ‘difficulty’

Business Secretary Vince Cable has admitted that continuing with controversial plans to demand employer cash contributions for apprenticeships would...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Concern over college bonus despite ‘flaws’

An influential MP has complained that Newcastle College Group (NCG) could still receive government bonus payments despite being set...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Profiles

Carole Stott, director and chair, Association of Colleges

In the office of Carole Stott’s mentor and university lecturer Gerard Boynton, there was a sign hanging up that...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The indy scene

Managing a national training company brings a great deal of variety to my daily workload. However, this time of...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

What is the safeguarding duty and what happens if providers get it wrong?

Ofsted inspectors recently gave a 16 to 19 independent learning provider an inadequate rating having discovered it failing to...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Level four FE loans — whither policy now?

The most recent government release on FE loans indicated that the number of applications from learners aiming to study...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Movers and Shakers

Edition 117: Dr Jan Edrich, Tony Lau-Walker and Lawrence Vincent

Former Association of South East Colleges (AOSEC) chief executive Dr Jan Edrich has been appointed principal at Hampshire’s Eastleigh...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Colleges team up with uni to produce legal offer

New vocational routes into the legal profession have been opened up after a partnership between FE colleges and a...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter