Billy Camden | FE Week

Owner of defunct provider involved in £20m subcontracting scandal declares bankruptcy

ESFA makes claim on
insolvent SCL Training Ltd

Omicron: 1 in 25 college teachers and leaders off with Covid as absence rate doubles

It comes as 300,000 students studying vocational and technical qualifications get ready to sit exams this month

Justice: FE Week campaign wins £1.5m relief for victims of loan scandal

Almost 600 victims of an FE loans scandal have had £1.5 million worth of debt written off following an FE Week campaign. For years, adult learners were being forced to repay thousands of pounds for a course they had never completed after their training provider went bust. Ministers refused to write off their advance learner […]

Base rate rise must be used to raise college staff pay, UCU demands

A union has called on college leaders to “guarantee” that the latest FE base rate funding increase will result in a substantial staff pay rise next year. Just before the Christmas break the Department for Education announced that the national funding rate for full-time students aged 16 and 17 will rise by 8.4 per cent […]

Queen’s New Year honours 2022: Who got what in FE and skills?

This year includes one CBE, six OBEs, four MBEs and one BEM – but no knighthoods or dames

T Levels attract 5,450 new students in 2021

And around 3,550 students started the T Level transition programme

How important is FE to ‘levelling up’?

In the 2021 Queen’s Speech, the government stated that it intended to “level up opportunities across all parts of the UK, supporting jobs, businesses and economic growth”. Furthermore, the government has signified its prioritisation of levelling up, by creating the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to progress this agenda. But how does further […]

FE base rate to increase from August 2022 to £4,542

An 8.4% increase in the national funding rate for students aged 16-17 will be applied

Revealed: The winners in the £120m Institutes of Technology wave 2 competition

The names of the next nine colleges and universities to develop new Institutes of Technology have been named. The winners include six colleges and three universities who will split a £120 million capital funding pot. This is the second wave of the IoT programme, which are described as “unique collaborations” between employers, colleges and universities […]