News

Nine key findings from new DfE employer and apprentice surveys

The Department for Education released new data into the views and experiences of apprenticeships today. A survey of more...

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Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

College funding support confirmed, and 4 other key points from latest DfE Covid-19 guidance

The government confirmed it will honour all payments to grant funded providers for the remainder of the 2019/20 funding...

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Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

£1m rap collaboration sends apprenticeship site visits soaring

The government has celebrated nearly tripling the interest in apprenticeships after spending more than £1 million on the release...

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Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Bulletin, Movers and Shakers

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 311

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Di Gowland, Interim principal, Waltham Forest College Start date: March...

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Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Profiles

Introducing… John Clarke

FE Week meets a principal whose career has been defined by quiet consistency, and who has a few parting...

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Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

Apprentice assessment organisation hit by ‘significant cancellations’

A leading apprentice assessment organisation has told FE Week they are already experiencing “significant cancellations” following the coronavirus outbreak....

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Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Opinion

A principal’s day of shock, some relief and a poignant note to end on

The need to act on government’s decision is tempered by concern for our students, writes college principal and the...

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NICK BURNHAM
News

Shrewsbury college loses grade 4 battle with Ofsted

A college accused of serious safeguarding failures has failed to overturn an ‘inadequate’ judgment following a second visit from...

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Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

ESFA warns college over finances after bank covenant breach

A college has been moved into FE Commissioner intervention after it breached a bank covenant and had to reclassify...

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Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu