Author: FE Week Reporter

The principal of a Yorkshire college said she had been “devastated” by the death of a three-year-old girl who got her neck caught in a rope at the college nursery in September 2012. Unfortunately, it has taken the death of a three-year-old girl to expose the flaws in their health and safety practice…” York College […]

European funding for tackling youth unemployment could have been better spent at local level, a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) official has admitted. The head of the DWP European Social Fund (ESF) Division, Angus Gray, told a House of Lords inquiry into youth unemployment that too much of the fund had been spent centrally. […]

The boss of A4e has spoken of his disappointment at four former employers after they admitted ripping off taxpayers while employed by the welfare-to-work provider. Ex-A4e recruiters Julie Grimes, Aditi Singh, Bindiya Dholiwar and Dean Lloyd, pleaded guilty to more than 30 charges of forgery and fraud when they appeared  at Reading Crown Court (pictured) […]

Fears have been raised that a lengthy application process for FE loans could be putting people off starting courses. worrying conversion rate” David Hughes (pictured top), chief executive of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace), claimed there was a “worrying conversion rate” between the number of students offered 24+ advanced learning loans and […]

Graduate maths teachers who choose to teach in FE colleges will get a bonus of up to £10,000 under a £20m plan unveiled by the Government to recruit 500 new maths teachers in the sector. Skills and Enterprise Minister Matthew Hancock announced the new measure today in the wake of changes to traineeships, apprenticeships and […]