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The new FE Commissioner is yet to be appointed despite interviews by officials from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), FE Week understands. A number of candidates have already been spoken to, but none has been appointed to the role — or to any of its seven advisory posts. “The interview and appointment […]
News
Seven colleges will be taking up the opportunity, for the first time, to directly enrol full-time 14 and 15 year olds in September. The Education Funding Agency (EFA) has now confirmed the seven colleges which “meet the entry criteria as at 15 July 2013 to commence delivery from September 2013″ are: Central territory: Halesowen College. Local authority: Dudley North […]
A Dorset college that was wrongly labelled as under-performing in official statistics has won an apology. Kingston Maurward College, in Dorchester, was ordered to improve in May having apparently fallen below the Education Funding Agency’s (EFA) new minimum standards for key stage five. The land-based college, according to the Department for Education (DfE), failed to […]
Moves to tackle poor provision by Elmfield were ordered personally by Skills Minister Matthew Hancock before its inadequate grading from Ofsted had even been published, FE Week can reveal. The minister is understood to have been furious with the provider following success rates, as reported in FE Week two months ago, showing just 47.5 per […]
FE Week has quickly built a reputation for being a high quality weekly printed newspaper, but we also publish many of our articles and all our supplements online. Between August 2012 and July 2013 the FE Week website received 871,895 page views from 197,859 unique visitors. Links to the ten most viewed news articles in 2012/13 Views Published 1 Newcastle College boss […]
Only seven colleges will be taking up the opportunity, for the first time, to directly enrol full-time 14 and 15 year olds in September, the Education Funding Agency told FE Week today. Of 283 colleges which meet the criteria laid out by Skills Minister Matthew Hancock in December last year, only these seven (2.5 per cent) […]
The government’s announcement that 19 to 24-year-olds will, along with 16 to 18-year-olds, be able to do traineeships has boosted hopes of tackling youth unemployment, says Stewart Segal Let’s be clear first that traineeships represent a major opportunity to tackle the NEET issue. The Spending Review announcement that from August 2013, the programme will cover […]
Opinion
While providers gear up for the challenge of delivering traineeships, Ofsted has been looking at how to assess the scheme. Matthew Coffey explains what the education watchdog wants to see in action. We’re all too familiar with the young person who, for whatever reasons, hasn’t excelled at school and runs the risk of joining the […]
The transition from unskilled to skilled could be key to answering the UK’s youth unemployment problem, explains Matthew Hancock The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is by no means alone in regarding unemployment among young people as “the most pressing European problem”. However, in Germany the rates of youth unemployment are far lower than most of […]
