Author: FE Week Reporter

An investigation into Elmfield Training will continue despite part of the company having been sold to a nursing homes training provider, FE Week can reveal. Elmfield, which was slapped with a notice of concern in June following a grade four Ofsted inspection result, contacted staff more than two weeks ago to say it was taking […]

The Association of Colleges’ boss has written to the Skills Funding Agency expressing concerns over software funding delays and outlining the problems providers are facing. Click here to read the letter. The Association’s chief executive, Martin Doel, called for “concerted action” from the agency to rectify problems caused by a delay in releasing software to […]

A new training course is set to be launched to prepare FE lecturers for a massive expansion in students who will need to be taught English GCSE. The Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed it is developing an English enhancement programme to help FE lecturers teach the subject at GCSE. This is being developed with […]

Teaching unions have raised further concerns about the governance and management of a troubled college which is being investigated by the government. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has written to Ofsted about Barnfield College, in Bedfordshire, in the same week as the Skills Funding Agency and the Department for Education confirmed they were investigating allegations that are being […]

Elmfield Training has confirmed that its “directors have taken steps to protect the company through an administration process”. In a press statement sent to FE Week, Elmfield said: “The board and its advisers have been working hard with major stakeholders in recent weeks to try and put the business on a sounder long term footing. […]

Funding software delays at the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) sparked fury in the FE sector. A delay in supplying providers with the full software system for checking data errors and calculating funding, known as the Funding Information System (FIS), has meant providers will now have just eight working days to check tens of thousands of Individualised […]