Author: FE Week Reporter

The identities of six new Ofsted regional directors have been announced following a shake-up aimed at driving up provider standards. Each regional director will report directly to Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw and will be responsible for quality of inspection in their region along with the improvement of standards in childcare, schools, and learning and […]

Providers are to be protected from potentially huge drops in funding when a new payments regime is introduced from August. The Skills Funding Agency exclusively told FE Week that “transitional protection” would be in place for the new adult funding system after research showed the value of many qualification would fall by more than 20 […]

The boss of a firm set to lose thousands of pounds after a provider went into administration branded it “unjust” that another company could operate with the same board of directors, based in the same offices — having also taken over the same training contract. M2 Training, that was responsible for 4,000 learners, had a […]

The Skills Funding Agency “risks destabilising the system” with plans to stop paying out for more than 1,000 qualifications, it has been claimed. The Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB) hit out at the agency over its moves to “rationalise the publicly funded offer for adults for 2013/14”. It could result in the end of agency […]