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13 May 2026

Author: FE Week Reporter

Digital Apprenticeship Service to be renamed prior to launch

The Digital Apprenticeship Service (or DAS) is due for launch later this month, but will be renamed the ‘apprenticeship service’, FE Week can reveal. In an email to employer groups, seen by FE Week, the Department for Education said: “The name of the new service through which employers will plan, manage and pay for their […]

Apprenticeship starts rise despite fall in vacancies

Apprenticeship starts published by the DfE this morning show a slight increase, when comparing provisional figures for the first quarter of the academic year (August to October). Latest figures out today show provisional starts at 155,600, compared to 153,100 over the same period a year ago. This comes as the latest vacancy numbers taken from the ‘find and […]

Industrial Strategy will put FE in spotlight with £170m to create Institutes of Technology

The Industrial Strategy Green Paper will be published tomorrow, with post-16 technical education taking centre stage. A statement by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy says the strategy will “include plans for a radical overhaul of technical education to address its historic undervaluation in the UK and provide a credible alternative to the academic […]

Navigating 2017

In 2016 the FE sector navigated very choppy waters – but for the New Year it is now full steam ahead. There is much to do to be ready for the developments 2017 will bring, and it is important to take stock of what was achieved in the past 12 months. Click here to download […]

Institute for Apprenticeships consultation launched

This morning the government launched their long awaited Institute for Apprenticeships consultation. With a January 31 deadline, you have less than four weeks to give your view on the Draft Strategic Guidance to the Institute for Apprenticeships. Key functions for the Institute for Apprenticeship, which will be launched in April: Standards development and approval Currently the government […]

Daventry UTC announces it is to close next year

Low student numbers will lead to closure at yet another University Technical College. The trustees of UTC for New Technologies at Daventry (known as Daventry UTC), today announced that it will close on 31 August 2017, making it the sixth UTC out of 48 to shut. Figures obtained by FE Week through Freedom of Information requests made […]

Area review reports and recommendations finally published

This afternoon the Department for Education began publishing reports and recommendations for area reviews in the first two waves. Links below to all 13 and story to follow: Birmingham and Solihull further education area review report : wave 1 Cheshire and Warrington further education area review report : wave 2 Greater Manchester further education area review report : […]

Scotland and Wales win big at Skills Show 2016 competition finals

Scottish and Welsh Colleges have emerged as the big winners at the Skills Show 2016 in Birmingham as they claimed the top three positions in the official medal table New College Lanarkshire won the most medals and took the top spot with 32 points, made up of four gold, two silver, four bronze and two […]

Skills Show Results 2016 – organisation league table

Organisation league table for the 2016 WorldSkills UK Skills Show competition finals.  Rank Points Organisation Gold Silver Bronze Highly Commended Organisation Type 1 32 New College Lanarkshire 4 2 4 2 FE College 2 23 City of Glasgow College 2 3 2 2 FE College 3 17 Coleg Sir Gar 3 1 1 0 FE College […]