Author: Billy Camden

The Greater London Authority has become the first devolved area to launch a tender for its adult education budget. Its procurement, worth an initial £130 million over four years, went live on Saturday and will run for two months until December 21. London’s indicative total AEB is £311 million per year, although the final amount […]

The government has approved around £330 million to cover the cost of implementing post-area review changes so far. The figure, which amounts to 45 per cent of the £726 million on offer, was revealed in the latest Education and Skills Funding Agency progress report on the restructuring facility, which closed last month. Although it is […]

Apprenticeship starts for July are down 43 per cent on the same month in 2016 – but up 21 per cent on last year. There have been 25,200 starts recorded so far in July 2018, compared with 44,100 in June 2016 according to the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s monthly apprenticeship statistics update, published this […]

Former apprenticeship provider Aspire Achieve Advance has been placed into compulsory liquidation, after a High Court Judge accepted a winding up petition brought before the court earlier today. The directors of the company, better known as 3aaa, submitted a winding up petition against itself last week. It follows the training provider closing its doors earlier […]

A studio school in Bath that has struggled to meet costs as a result of severely low student numbers is likely to shut in August 2020, after the government agreed to close it “in principle”. The Wellsway Multi Academy Trust, which has run The Bath Studio School since it opened in 2014, “regretfully” announced the […]

Staff are likely to strike at four colleges this term, but union members are in uproar as ballots at 103 others did not pass new “pernicious” thresholds. The University and Colleges union has been balloting staff in colleges across the country since August on whether they want to take industrial action in a battle over […]

Twelve school and college associations have written to the chancellor to urge him to increase funding for sixth form education by an initial £200 per student in next week’s budget. The letter marks the launch of the ‘Raise the Rate’ campaign, calling for an increase to the base rate for all 16-18-year-old students, which has […]

Five training providers have been stripped of more than £100,000 due to the controversial English and maths condition-of-funding rule, according to new government figures. However, one of them – Plumpton College – claims the Education and Skills Funding Agency has made a mistake and it has not actually lost out on the near £350,000 detailed […]

Concerns have been raised about a loophole in the government’s apprenticeships register after a broker advertised how companies can buy their way on to it. FE Week discovered the apparent short cut on Wednesday when Yorkshire-based Education & Skills Consultancy put out an advert to sell a provider for between £50,000 and £60,000. Its heading […]