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Ofsted to hit England’s largest apprenticeship provider with grade 3

Quality concerns found at Lifetime Training, which delivers to big-name employers and the civil service

News, Apprenticeships, Ofsted

Keith Smith to leave DfE to become London college boss

He has been a top skills civil servant for a decade

News

Lord Mike Watson, shadow education minister

Having become an MP in 1989, Lord Mike Watson has spent many years in frustrating opposition for the Labour Party. As he steps down as shadow education minister in the Lords, he offers words of advice for his successors It’s not often you sit in a grand, wood-panelled room in the heart of Westminster, and […]

Profiles

Staff now plan to strike during first week of September over ‘fire and rehire’ row at London college

14 consecutive days of industrial action have been announced

News, Colleges, Staff

Here are the moving stories we heard from people who really want to skill up

People with caring responsibilities and disabilities must be properly understood if they are to access the lifelong loan entitlement, write Ed Reza Schwitzer and Patrick Thomson In our last piece in FE Week we highlighted that the core challenge for the lifelong loan entitlement (LLE) is behavioural – to have impact, individuals, providers and employers […]

Opinion

Let’s prioritise skills spending on level 4 to level 7

Suggestions that training spend should be limited to those with the lowest qualifications are misguided, writes Mandy Crawford-Lee In the past couple of months, there has been some very useful analysis out from the Learning and Work Institute (LWI). This includes one of its most recent reports called ‘Raising the Bar’, on the lack of […]

Opinion

How the cost of living crisis is taking its toll on FE students

Leaders reveal how families are now struggling to feed and clothe their children

News

Just £9m of adult education and non-levy apprenticeship relief funding released

Training providers were handed less than £9 million as part of a relief scheme to support adult education courses and non-levy apprenticeships during the pandemic – a fraction of the £144 million first projected to be needed.    Two rounds of supplier relief schemes were launched by the Department for Education in 2020 to retain provider […]

News, Covid-19

Union threatens results days as staff mull strike action

A pay dispute at AQA could see staff walk out over the summer, but bosses say union strike threats are ‘needlessly frightening’ students and teachers.

News, Staff