Opinion

Recruitment integrity call for functional skills regime

With functional skills now in place, providers should be taking the opportunity to make sure they are recruiting with...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Lies, damned lies, and UKBA statistics

Professor Daniel Khan OBE, chief executive of Open College Network (OCN) London, reacts to UKBorder Agency (UKBA) criticism of...

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FE Week Reporter
Opinion

What’s to show for tech cash?

The benefits of new technology are not being fully felt at colleges across the country, prompting former Barnsley college...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The truth behind the 16-18 apprenticeship problem

Falling apprenticeship numbers among 16 to 18-year-olds have come as no surprise to Peter Cobrin, from Apprenticeships England, who...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Firms primed for new status after success on apprentices

Two Midland-based training providers have made the shift from delivering apprenticeships for lead providers to dealing directly with the...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Colleges underdeliver by ‘£45m to £60m’

The Association of Colleges (AoC) has estimated that colleges failed to deliver between £45m and £60m of adult provision...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Provider hits back at ‘unfounded claim’

The boss of an Essex-based training provider has said a local college was refusing to pay its apprenticeship bill...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Elmfield Training ‘tells 400’ staff their jobs are at risk

A training provider that helped deliver one of the UK’s biggest apprenticeship programmes at Morrisons is shedding a third...

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FE Week Reporter
Uncategorized

Ofqual indentifies issues with internal assessment of ESOL provision

Assessment malpractice, funding uncertainties, new courses and immigration rules were the hot topics of discussion at a conference on...

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FE Week Reporter