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Your FE & skills General Election questions answered — part two: Labour

The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats have all come in for grilling with a host of questions from FE and skills figures. In this second of three articles, Shadow Skills Minister Liam Byrne (pictured) takes the stand for Labour. Business, Enterprise and Energy Minister Matthew Hancock answered yesterday, while a Lib Dem spokesperson fields questions later today on […]

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Your FE & skills General Election questions answered — part one: The Conservatives

The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats have all come in for grilling with a host of questions from FE and skills figures. In this first of three articles, Business, Enterprise and Energy Minister Matthew Hancock (pictured) takes the stand for the Conservatives. Labour’s Shadow Skills Minister Liam Byrne answers tomorrow morning on feweek.co.uk, while a Lib Dem spokesperson […]

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Threefold increase in £200k-plus principal posts

The number of colleges paying out upwards of £200k on their principal posts rocketed threefold last academic year, FE Week can reveal. The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) published the 2013/14 college accounts during the Easter holidays and FE Week analysis shows that a dozen colleges handed over more than £200k in salaries to principals — up […]

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London federation learns from Middlesbrough ‘failure’

Three London colleges have announced plans to form a federation in a bid to combat budget cuts. Newham College, Tower Hamlets and Redbridge College have formed the Federation of East London Colleges, due to have its first working group meeting this month. College leaders said they hoped the move would allow them to share resources […]

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Workplace complexity requires careers guidance and skills provision overview

Anthony Mann looks at the issue of careers advice with the demands of employers for workers with certain skills becoming ever-more complex. Two elements of education and skills policy have, of late, attracted particularly intense controversy. Both are Cinderellas of their sectors and the two are related: careers education and adult skills provision. What connects […]

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SFA relaxes traineeship subcontractor rules while DWP ‘increases access’ for young JSA claimants

The Skills Funding Agency has relaxed its rules on new traineeship subcontracting to allow all grade three-rated and non-inspected providers to work with a grade one or two lead to deliver the programme. Thanks to the changes, brought in this month, grade three-rated (‘requires improvement’) providers and those not inspected by Ofsted can draw up traineeship agreements […]

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Ex-A4e workers jailed over £300k taxpayer fraud

Five former A4e workers have been jailed for their parts in a back-to-work scheme fraud that cost the taxpayer nearly £300,000. A further five former employees were handed suspended sentences at Reading Crown Court  for a plot that involved creating faked records of welfare-to-work learners. Between 2008 and 2011, the defendants submitted fraudulent paperwork for learners on […]

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Election questions from across the FE and skills sector

The election period officially begins today — and last week saw the leaders of the two largest parties being put on the spot by Jeremy Paxman and a studio audience on Channel 4’s Battle for Number 10. Opinion was divided over who came out on top — but whoever it was, there were plenty of questions […]

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Government cuts could ‘decimate’ adult education by 2020, AoC warns

Continued cuts to the adult skills budget risk wiping out adult education and training in England within five years, the Association of Colleges (AoC) has warned after research showed 190,000 course places could be lost in 2015/16 alone. The AoC has published research based on data from its 336 member colleges which points to a […]

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