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Agency gets tough with new rules on bosses

The Skills Funding Agency has beefed-up funding rules to stop rogue bosses setting up new providers to get their hands on public money. The agency has carried out a host of changes to its eight-page Funding Higher-risk Providers and Subcontractors guidance. It outlines the criteria that would stop a provider being considered for funding, either […]

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Nothing like a damehood for Asha

West Nottinghamshire College principal Asha Khemka (pictured) tops the FE and skills sector’s representation on the New Year Honours list by becoming a dame. She is in line for the honour for services to FE just five years after she was awarded an OBE for services to education. Mrs Khemka, principal of West Nottinghamshire College […]

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The apprentice loans battle is won, but the campaign goes on

Business Secretary Vince Cable’s exclusive confirmation to FE Week that the apprenticeship loans system was being dropped was a victory for many in the sector, including the National Union of Students. But, as Toni Pearce explains, the fight against the wider FE loans system continues. I’m incredibly pleased that Business Secretary Vince Cable confirmed the […]

Opinion

Ofsted annual report Q&A with Matthew Coffey

The Ofsted director of FE and skills spoke with FE Week deputy editor at the launch of the education watchdog’s 2012/13 annual report. Chris Henwood: The report mentions an initial evaluation of 16 to 19 programmes. Will that come as part of inspections, or will you be doing something separate? Matthew Coffey: I am always […]

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Get this bit right and you’ll really start to change lives

Getting into schools, where information, advice and guidance is known to be a problem, can be difficult for colleges. Catherine Hill explains how it can be done. Ofsted recently judged us as outstanding but while this is understandably a source of great local pride, the inspectors’ comments about the strength of our partnerships with schools, […]

Opinion

All I want for Christmas is… a target (for English and maths)

Any preconceived idea that adult literacy and numeracy in the UK was a source of pride will have been seriously questioned over the past year. Harvey Young examines how a nation might improve its English and maths. This has been a year of turmoil for education. You might argue that the upheaval has been no […]

Opinion

Employers can’t do without specialist support from providers

Many employers will struggle to identify and purchase the best possible training packages for their apprentices and providers are best-placed to advise them, says Michael Woodgate. The chancellor’s announcement that apprenticeship funding will be routed directly to employers is the latest in a long line of policies, proposals and initiatives based on the prevailing consensus […]

Opinion

Learners’ own jobs could get study programme funding

Learners’ part-time paid jobs could be publicly-funded as part of the new study programmes for 16 to 19-year-olds, FE Week can reveal. It had appeared the Department for Education (DfE) would only allow unpaid work experience organised through colleges or independent learning providers to form part of the programmes. College principals had warned this would […]

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Christine Bullock, chief executive, Apt Awards

The Pheasant Inn, in Chippenham, has a lot to answer for in Christine Bullock’s life. It was where she was once persuaded to take part in a pub crawl around the Wiltshire market town dressed as a ‘push-me-pull-you’ — a double headed pantomime horse — and where she met late husband Bob. It was also […]

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