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26 April 2026

Author: FE Week Reporter

College wins Morrisons’ contract

The contract to deliver the country’s biggest apprenticeship programme has been won by NCG (formerly Newcastle College Group). The Academy Apprenticeship and qualifications programme of supermarket giant Morrisons will change hands from current provider Elmfield to NCG from August. The contract will be managed by the college’s Intraining division, which works with more than 20,000 […]

Guild given ministerial green light

Plans for a new FE body to support the sector have been given the go-ahead. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills confirmed funding, excluding VAT, of £18.8m for August to April next year and the same figure again for 2014-15 to develop the FE Guild. David Hughes, independent chair of the guild’s development steering […]

Dates confirmed for Skills Show 2013

The Skills Show, the UK’s largest skills and careers event, returns to the NEC Birmingham from 14-16 November 2013 for its second year, and has announced the Edge Foundation as a new Premier sponsor to complement existing Premier sponsor City & Guilds.  The Edge Foundation is an independent education charity dedicated to raising the status […]

Minister in traineeship web launch

Further education Minister Matthew Hancock (above right) took part in his first webinar to launch a government discussion paper on traineeships. Broadcasting live from the Department for Education and in partnership with FE Week, the minister spoke to an online audience of around 750 on Thursday, January 10. The 30-minute webinar was an opportunity for the […]

Traineeship plan revealed

Plans for a new training scheme to equip young people with “the confidence, skills and experience needed to find work” has been announced. FE minister Matthew Hancock has revealed a potential traineeship model, which could be in place by September 2013, and would see 16 to 24-year-olds not in education or struggling to find work […]

Uncertainty warning over apprentice loans

The Shadow FE Minister has described it as “deeply alarming” that government-commissioned research says apprentices do not understand how they would be affected by FE loans. Gordon Marsden (right) spoke out after the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) revealed a report commissioned to assess how 24+ Advanced Learner Loans would affect course uptake. […]

Provider contract to be cut short amid debt claim

The Skills Funding Agency is tearing up an £800,000 training contract with a Hertfordshire-based provider amid claim the firm owes at least one subcontractor nearly £18,000. Train 4 Work Ltd, which was allocated the contract under the agency’s Adult Skills Budget for 2012/13, was “formally notified” of the move more than two months ago. The […]

Pearson puts 560 staff at jobs risk

Hundreds of FE workers are facing redundancy after Pearson announced it was planning to close an adult education branch of the business with a loss of £120m. Pearson in Practice, which is built around Melorio, a company bought by Pearson two years ago for £99.3m, is launching a 90-day consultation on the firm’s future. Changes […]