Author: Nick Linford

Colleges will have access to cash to pay for consultants to help them implement area review recommendations, FE Week can exclusively reveal. A spokesperson for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) told FE Week that grants of between £50,000 and £100,000 would be available to cover “the people that may be needed for […]

The issue of FE’s future in London is hotting up before the mayoral election in May. One of the top jobs in the new Mayor’s in-tray will be leading the capital’s post-16 education area review and the current Mayor, Boris Johnson, has already taken a leading role in the preparations. In an open letter to […]

The government has sought to re-assure small and medium-sized employers (SMEs) there will be enough apprenticeship levy money left over for them. Skills Minister Nick Boles has re-emphasised plans to make SMEs rely on unspent apprenticeship levy funds from larger companies to pay for their training. Mr Boles told the House of Commons this afternoon that the […]

A struggling University Technical College (UTC) which has already been rescued by a neighbouring FE college is to close this summer, bosses have revealed. Leaders at Central Bedfordshire UTC have admitted they had not been able to attract “sufficient pupils” to the 14 to 19 vocational institution to provide a “financially viable experience” after this year, […]

Former chief executive of awarding organisation OCR Mark Dawe has been appointed as the new boss of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP). He will take over from the outgoing chief executive Stewart Segal, who is joining independent learning provider Aspire, Achieve, Advance as director of strategy, policy and funding. Mr Dawe, who […]