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The principal of an FE college is planning to take-on students left stranded after an academy trust dropped plans to open a specialist STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) school sixth form in Croydon. STEM Academy Trust had originally planned to open the school sixth-form at the former South Norwood police station, in Croydon, in […]
News
A Labour government would protect 16 to 19 education as part of plans to protect the entire Department for Education (DfE) budget, party leader Ed Miliband has announced. Mr Miliband set out his party’s policies on education for the May 7 general election in a speech at lunchtime today at his old school — Haverstock, […]
Labour leader Ed Miliband is set to stand by his party’s controversial pledge to scrap apprenticeships of less than two years’ duration and below level three in a speech today. Mr Miliband will set out his vision for education if Labour wins the general election on May 7 in a speech this afternoon at his old […]
By the time you read this, it will be just 90 or so days until we know the general election result, although it could be several days or even weeks before we know who will be governing us. Indeed the 2015 general election may be the catalyst for a radical change in British politics possibly […]
Opinion
Ofsted has been warned that the “devil will be in the detail” when it applies a new common inspection framework (CIF) across FE, early years and schools from September. It was exclusively revealed in FE Week in August that the education watchdog planned for inspections to be “harmonised” under one CIF. And Ofsted said on […]
The pressure is mounting on Labour to reveal whether it would introduce an FE and skills funding ringfence after the Conservatives made their positions clear to widespread sector criticism. Ed Miliband’s party is yet to say if it would extend the existing ringfence for schools funding to include the 16 to 19 budget having seen […]
BBC Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark has been unveiled as host of the FE Week Annual Apprenticeship Conference next month. She will be in the chair for the conference taking place over the first two days of National Apprenticeship Week (March 9 and 10). In partnership with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, (BIS), the […]
A report for the Local Government Association (LGA) claiming more than £800m of public money went on teenagers who dropped out of post-16 education “shines a light on failing careers advice in this country,” Association of Colleges chief executive Martin Doel (pictured above) has said. Analysis for the LGA by the Centre for Economic & […]
Colleges and local authorities will get a multi-million pound Skills Funding Agency (SFA) payout for non-apprenticeship provision this month while independent learning providers (ILPs) look set to miss out on the cash boost, FE Week can exclusively reveal. In a letter seen by FE Week, SFA funding and programmes director Keith Smith told colleges and […]
