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Rapper Curtis sings Dame Kelly praise

A Derby College rapper featured on a BBC Lifeline TV programme to highlight the support he has gained from...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The big Lep Euro funding step

Within the next couple of weeks, we expect the Skills Funding Agency to finally begin the process of European...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Climbing out of the abyss

Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget last month was widely expected to be disastrous for FE. But while many are still...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Tutor brings back Danish lessons

A City of Liverpool College sports tutor is using his experience in working with Olympic hopefuls to benefit his...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The ‘heartbreaking’ path to raising standards through competition

Among the many proud principals watching learners take part in last month’s WorldSkills UK competitions at the Skills Show...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Funding cut for back-to-work support

Providers have been warned that government funding to help long-term unemployed people back into work was likely to be...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Annual Ofsted report exposes FE maths and English issues

Ofsted deputy director for FE and skills Paul Joyce has outlined how the story of the education watchdog’s 2014/15...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Sir Michael sees how ‘inequalities in funding impact on what we can do with our learners’

Phil Hatton reviews the Ofsted 2014/15 annual report and pinpoints as key its mention of how funding issues are...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Should Ofsted help shape programmes as well as inspect them?

Sue Pember casts her eye over the Ofsted 2014/15 annual report. Ofsted’s mission statement is ‘raising standards and improving...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter