Profiles

Sandra McNally, director, Centre for Vocational Education Research

They’re questions that will have kept many others in the FE sector awake at night. They include how do...

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Opinion

There’s more to FE and skills on Twitter than apprenticeship vacancies

It’s more than five years since Ruth Sparkes first applied her FE and skills marketing knowledge to the sector’s...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Bank fines to fund 50k apprenticeships and traineeships for unemployed 22 to 24-year-olds under Tories

A Conservative-led government would use a £200m fund from bank fines issued in the wake of the Libor scandal...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

What makes FE political

I read a blog the other day that talked about how there was so much political consensus around in...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Education and Training Foundation workforce survey highlights Functional Skills teacher recruitment problem

A third of work-based learning providers are finding it difficult to recruit Functional Skills (FS) teachers, a survey by the...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Extra freedoms for FE ‘limited’, claims 157 Group report

Delivery of extra freedoms for the FE sector has been “limited” despite being central to government policy for years,...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Third of Intraining workforce hit as 450 jobs set for axe

More than a third of the workforce at NCG’s 1,200-worker Intraining division were today facing redundancy following one of...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Event aims to boost female tech skills

Greater collaboration between FE and business could help to encourage more women into digital industries, according to a report...

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