Author: FE Week Reporter

The date when the restriction requiring providers to have grade one or two Ofsted ratings to run traineeships will be lifted has been moved forward from August to the start of next month. The announcement was made in the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) Update bulletin published on its website this afternoon. Currently, only outstanding and […]

Members of the Apprenticeship Delivery Board (ADB) tasked with advising the government on how it can hit its target of 3m starts by 2020 have finally been unveiled, five months after its creation was first announced. The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) announced “the creation” of the ADB on July 22, but little had been said […]

Stewart Segal will be stepping down as chief executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) at the end of March to move to a newly-created role at a grade one-rated apprenticeship training provider. Mr Segal will continue in his current role until March 31, an AELP spokesperson said, before starting as the […]

Senior figures from across the FE world gathered for the official launch of the Learning and Work Institute (LWI) at London’s Canary Wharf. The new organisation was formed through the merger of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) and the Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion (Inclusion). More than 100 guests, including Jeremy […]

The head civil servant at the Department for Education (DfE) Chris Wormald will move to the Department of Health later this year. Mr Wormald was appointed Permanent Secretary for the DfE in March 2012. But the government announced today that he will take up the same role at the Department of Health, replacing current boss […]

Providers could be forced to slow down 16 to 18 apprenticeships delivery with their requests for growth going unanswered. The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) had been expected to let providers know the outcomes of their requests by January 8 following a shake-up of the process after similar delays last year. The shake-up, instigated by SFA […]

A Cumbria sixth form college rapped over the knuckles for the condition of its finances by the Education Funding Agency (EFA) is hoping a merger will solve its funding problems. Barrow Sixth Form College was issued with a financial notice to improve this month having been graded as inadequate for financial health in September. The 900-learner […]