Opinion

Building a skilled construction workforce between the gaps

While the building trade is a big employer of apprentices, the wider construction industry suffers skills gaps elsewhere. But...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Are rural business communities being let down in the training stakes?

Employers in big town and city locations make an attractive proposition for young workers and providers who, claims Salena...

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FE Week Reporter
Profiles

Peter Marples, director and owner, Aspire Achieve Advance

In early 2006 Peter Marples, fresh off the back of a merger between his provider Assa and training giant...

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FE Week Reporter
News

No FE question time on Question Time

Further education figures were left disappointed by a lack of sector talk as Skills Minister Matthew Hancock and Professor...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Still no end in sight to SFA software nightmare

There remains no end in sight to the problems faced by providers trying to use new funding software to...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Jobcentres steer teens away from traineeships

Jobcentre Plus (JCP) advisers have been told not to direct 18 and 19-year-olds to the government’s flagship traineeship scheme...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Gove attacked over excellent ‘extra-curricular’ claims

Funding for “expensive and untested” free schools should be used to improve extra-curricular activities at existing institutions, Sixth Form...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Boss speaks out over payments ‘dispute’

The managing director of a London-based independent learning provider has defended his firm after details of an alleged subcontractor...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Principal ‘devastated’ by girl’s nursery death

The principal of a Yorkshire college said she had been “devastated” by the death of a three-year-old girl who...

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FE Week Reporter