News

Minister rejects calls to scrap apprenticeship fees at AELP conference

Skills Minister Matthew Hancock has rejected calls for in-kind contributions towards apprenticeships to count as part of employers’ mandatory...

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FE Week Reporter
Bulletin

High stakes in principal’s sirloin ‘thank you’ meal

City College Norwich principal Corrienne Peasgood pulled on chef whites to cook dinner for staff who raised £15,000 for the student hardship...

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FE Week Reporter
Opinion

New jobs, new skills needs

With the economy growing, the number of people in a job rose 283,000 in just the last three months...

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FE Week Reporter
Movers and Shakers

Edition 104: Guy Adams and Andy Welsh

Somerset sixth form college governors’ chair has been made a National Leader of Governance. Guy Adams was given the...

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FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Leadership group fulfils ‘specific’ need for female bosses in FE

The workplace remains subject to male dominance and as such, says Carol Taylor, there is need for a space...

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FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Taking the FE sector forward with new teaching standards

With the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) having recently launched the first new FE teaching standards in seven years,...

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FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Taking apprenticeships further

The AELP does a remarkable job of bringing together an otherwise disparate group of providers. It has created unity...

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FE Week Reporter
News

New apprentice funding model ‘no simple system’

The newly-announced apprenticeship funding system in which employers will contribute 33 per cent of the cash has been described...

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FE Week Reporter
Profiles

Kathryn Rudd, principal, National Star College

Looking out onto the beautiful rolling hills of the Cotswolds, it’s hard to imagine a greater draw to working...

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