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The mayor of London plans to top-slice £3 million from the adult education budget to pay for over 50 new bureaucrats from next year, instead of using it for frontline learning. The money will cover the annual wage costs of a new administration to handle the AEB for the capital when devolution kicks in, including […]
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Parents are still sceptical about high-quality technical education. The entire FE sector has a duty to change their minds, writes Anne Milton As exam time approaches and lots of young people will be thinking about their futures, I want to talk directly to colleges and providers about what they should be letting parents know about […]
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The Education and Skills Funding Agency is beefing up its audit team amid mounting concerns about new providers entering the sector. It has launched a recruitment drive for a “newly created market oversight unit”, including an advert for four auditor vacancies posted on the civil service jobs website. They will operate directly under the leadership […]
An argument over pay between unions and the Association of Colleges has worsened, after the latter refused to enter negotiations while industrial action is ongoing. The various FE teaching unions insist that the body which represents the sector has told them it is “not minded to consider” a pay claim for 2018/19 while University and […]
It is crunch time at the nation’s largest college group, which is cutting staff and faces the return of Ofsted for a full inspection over its achievement rates. NCG will receive visits from two teams of inspectors on Monday, FE Week can reveal. One team will examine four of its colleges – Newcastle College, Newcastle […]
Staff at a host of colleges across the country will walk out on strike for up to seven days over exam season, in the latest action in an ongoing dispute over pay. Ten colleges, nine of which are in London, will be affected in the latest round of action in May and early June, organised […]
The former skills minister has appeared to question the whole design principle behind the government’s plan for prestigious new T-levels. Speaking in Westminster Hall this afternoon, Robert Halfon said that while there should be a “rocket booster” attached to the new technical qualifications, he is unsure about forcing 16-year-olds to choose between wholly academic and […]
The governors of a university technical college have been slammed for “abrogating” their responsibilities, in yet another damning Ofsted report into one of the 14-to-19 schools. Medway UTC was branded ‘inadequate’ across the board in a report published this morning and based on an inspection in early March. The verdict, which comes in the same […]
Thousands of young people are having their recent exam failures reversed, thanks to a change in the design of certain qualifications. FE Week looked into what’s going on: who’s making the change, why it has happened and how many learners are affected. More than 1,300 learners who failed courses last year are now being told […]
