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The Prime Minister is expected to make a cabinet reshuffle tomorrow, and most of the attention in the education sector will be on whether the Secretary of State, Justine Greening, is replaced. But keep an eye on the minister for skills, Anne Milton, a former nurse and junior health minister, now tipped by some to replace […]
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The Institute for Apprenticeships is losing a vital member of staff, one who was “instrumental” in setting up the organisation. Michael Keoghan, the Institute’s deputy chief executive, will leave at the end of this month to take up a new job as chief economic adviser at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He […]
UPDATE: The PAC has confirmed this hearing will start from 4pm on Monday January 15, and confirmed the witnesses will include Amanda Spielman, Andy Palmer, Peter Lauener, and Jonathan Slater The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has today said they want to hear the views of people that “had a problem with Learndirect” or those concerned […]
FE Week is known for investing in high quality investigative news and with three and a half million page views it’s been another record year. The news team has published 811 articles since January and here are the ten most read. ‘Shocked’ staff sent packing as huge apprenticeship training provider goes bust One of the […]
Two large colleges in the south-east, which teach a combined total of nearly 30,000 FE students every year, have announced plans to merge. Bracknell and Wokingham College will join the Activate Learning group – which currently encompasses Reading College, City of Oxford College and Banbury and Bicester College – from August 2018, subject to a […]
The bosses of two colleges located just 10 miles apart have been awarded CBEs in the Queen’s new year’s honours list. Judith Doyle, the principal of Gateshead College, and Dr Lindsey Whiterod, the chief executive of Tyne Coast College (formerly South Tyneside College), were recognised with one of the highest accolades awarded in the list […]
The architect of the apprenticeship levy gives his own account of how this landmark policy was brought to fruition, and explains just how much of a “big and risky” move it was. In an interview with the Institute for Government think-tank, the former skills minister Nick Boles revealed that his boss at the time, the […]
Children’s charity Barnardo’s has been left stranded without an apprenticeship training contract through the controversial non-levy tender. The huge charitable organisation has a proud history of placing young people with barriers to work, who often come from vulnerable backgrounds, with smaller employers, and training them as apprentices. But its chief executive Javed Khan spoke of […]
Ofsted has delivered an early Christmas present to FE, with six providers climbing up the rankings including one college moving from grade four to grade two in the space of a year. Hereward College of Further Education was deemed to be ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted in October 2016, with particular concerns raised over the safeguarding of […]
