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New Apprenticeship Delivery Board announced

A new Apprenticeship Delivery Board (ADB) is set to advise the government on how to reach its target of...

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FE Week Reporter
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Eight things we learned from the Skills Funding Agency’s annual accounts

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has released its annual accounts and report for 2014/15, so we had a comb...

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FE Week Reporter
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Five colleges announce ‘collaboration’ plans after pioneering area review

Five FE and sixth form colleges facing “significant financial challenges” are “actively considering” collaboration plans, following a pioneering review...

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FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Investment in skills training needed to get low paid off benefits

The government has made it clear that it wants to help more people off of benefits by supporting them...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Dates announced for next year’s National Apprenticeship Week

National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) will run next year from March 14 to 18. The dates for the ninth annual...

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FE Week Reporter
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Additional adult skills cuts account for just 13 per cent of required BIS savings

Further cuts to college budgets will account for just 13 per cent of extra savings needed at the Department...

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FE Week Reporter
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Boles tasks Education and Training Foundation with functional skills ‘reform programme’

The Education and Training Foundation has been asked to draw up a “programme of reform” for functional skills qualifications,...

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FE Week Reporter
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Colleges claw-back warning after audit reveals SFA may have wrongly paid out £50m

Almost £50m of funding may have been wrongly paid out by the Skills Funding Agency last financial year and...

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FE Week Reporter
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BIS committee announces inquiry into government Productivity Plan

The government’s Productivity Plan will be the first focus of the new business, innovation and skills (BIS) select committee,...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter