Opinion

We face challenges, but it’s not all gloom

Speakers at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers’ (AELP) autumn conference in Leeds addressed a number of issues,...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Elmfield Training dishes out cash to Morrisons

The provider behind the UK’s biggest apprenticeship programme has defended handing over taxpayers’ cash to the firm whose staff...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Dozens of providers exempt from rule

Forty providers are exempt from funding rules that ban introductory apprenticeships where more than 10 per cent of learners...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Job losses as Skillsfinder UK Training goes in to administration

A national training provider with nearly £2.5m of contracts last year has gone into administration with the loss of...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Review of FE teacher qualifications launched

Further education leaders have told of their concerns about new proposals for industry teacher training. A review of teacher...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Our future depends on how we teach FE learners

New FE proposals on teacher training have been formulated by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) and are...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Sharp criticism of ‘limited flexibility’ in the Innovation Code

Government measures to help colleges respond to local employment and skills needs have lost the “spirit” of the report...

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FE Week Reporter
News

SFA U-turn on performance tables

Nearly three months after the Skills Funding Agency was challenged over “mysterious” changes to college performance tables, it has...

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FE Week Reporter
Profiles

Ela Piotrowska, principal, Morley College

London in the aftermath of World War Two was a hard place for many, including the Piotrowska family. It...

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FE Week Reporter