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🗞️This week's FE Week front page:

National Apprenticeship Week: Minister confirms leadership and management apprenticeships in the firing line

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🗞️This week's FE Week front page:

National Apprenticeship Week: Minister confirms leadership and management apprenticeships in the firing line

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February 12, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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England’s apprenticeship budget was topped up with an extra £43.2m halfway through this financial year, underscoring mounting financial pressures and intensifying government’s drive to tighten control of the system https://feweek.co.uk/apprenticeship-budget-top-up-piles-cost-pressure-on-ministers/
Apprenticeship budget top-up piles cost pressure on ministers
Mid-year adjustment to 2025-26 allocation reinforces warnings the system is operating on increasingly fine margins
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February 12, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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🪑 A new chair of the Student Loans Company has been appointed. Gary Page will oversee the organisation as it implements major reforms like the lifelong learning entitlement, which is due to open for applications in September

https://feweek.co.uk/student-loans-company-turns-the-page-with-new-chair/
Student Loans Company turns the Page with new chair
Board member Gary Page will take over from Peter Lauener in April
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February 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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👏 Waltham Forest College principal Janet Gardner has announced that she will retire in August this year after six years in post

https://feweek.co.uk/changing-of-the-guard-at-waltham-forest-college/
Changing of the guard at Waltham Forest College
Waltham Forest College principal Janet Gardner has announced that she will retire in August this year after six years in post.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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🏗️ Applications have opened for the government’s post-16 and construction capacity funding grants, as the DfE has promised a 'decade of national renewal' through a new education estates strategy
https://feweek.co.uk/national-college-capacity-funding-opens-alongside-new-dfe-estates-strategy/
College capacity funding opens alongside estates plan
Applications have opened for the government’s post-16 and construction capacity funding grants, as DfE promises 'decade of national renewal' estates strategy.
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February 11, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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🪓 The Department for Education is considering the future of the T Level in finance, which launched in 2022, after no awarding organisations bid to run it in the latest procurement round

https://feweek.co.uk/finance-t-level-faces-write-off-after-no-aos-bid-to-run-it/
Finance T Level faces write-off after no AOs bid to run it
Engineering licenses will transfer to Pearson from City & Guilds
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February 11, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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University and College Union leader Jo Grady has accused her election opponents of taking private messages out of context and 'seeking to frame' her social media usage as a breach of campaign rules

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Jo Grady hits back at claims of UCU election breaches
Full account of Grady showdown with election opponents at certification officer hearing
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February 10, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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👉 The Department for Work and Pensions’ most senior official has announced he is stepping down this summer.

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DWP permanent secretary to step down
The Department for Work and Pensions’ most senior official has announced he is stepping down this summer.
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February 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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''Pass the learning around the classroom in the mould of a creative midfielder'
Clare Dignum, South Bank Colleges on lessons FE teachers can learn from Arsenal football players
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February 10, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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👋 Basingstoke College of Technology principal Anthony Bravo retired on Monday, leaving the college under interim leadership in the middle of the academic year
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BCoT principal Anthony Bravo suddenly retires
Basingstoke College of Technology (BCoT) principal Anthony Bravo retired on Monday (Febuary 9), leaving the college under interim leadership mid-year
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February 10, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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'The old infrastructure for essential skills provision is increasingly creaking and dated'
@lwalexs.bsky.social , @learnworkuk.bsky.social on how joining up Jobcentres and adult
learning could be a gamechanger, with the right vision
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February 10, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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🏗️ Construction firms working on school and college buildings will be forced to offer apprenticeships and T Level placement opportunities to students to work on site, the government has said
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School and college builders will have to hire apprentices
Construction firms working on school and college buildings will be forced to offer apprenticeships and T Level placement opportunities to students
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February 10, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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🧑‍💻 An apprenticeship brokerage pilot run by metro mayors will offer a university 'clearance style system' for young people whose applications have been rejected, the government has said
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'Clearance style' apprenticeship pilot to be run by mayors
An apprenticeship brokerage pilot run by metro mayors will offer a university “clearance style system” for young people whose applications have been rejected
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February 9, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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'SMEs’ engagement in apprenticeships has been flagging in recent years'
says Alice Gardner of @edgeuk.bsky.social - but there's an easy fix to this #NAW2026
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February 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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Inside the world of FE college 14-16 provision, where colleges are turning around the lives of anxious young people who had previously turned their backs on the education system
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February 9, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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🆕 Ahead of National Apprenticeship Week, the government says it can slash the time it takes to update apprenticeship standards to as little as three months

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Ministers to slash update approval times for some apprenticeships
DWP said accelerated processes could cut approval times from 18 to three months
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February 7, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Providers need clarity, flexibility and time to deliver post-16 qualifications reform

✍️Michael Lemin, NCFE

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V Levels ambition will outrun reality unless we slow down
Providers need clarity, flexibility and time to deliver post-16 qualifications reform
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February 7, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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Investment alone cannot build turbines, commission hydrogen plants, or run nuclear facilities warn members of the National Energy Skills Consortium (NESC)
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February 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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💸 A London scheme that paid £400 for every adult learner who found work in key sectors used only 2.5 per cent of its £5.4 million budget, FE Week can reveal
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London’s adult ed job payments fall flat
A London scheme that paid £400 for every adult learner who found work in key sectors used only 2.5 per cent of its £5.4 million budget, FE Week can reveal.
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February 6, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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🚨 One of England’s smallest colleges has been handed £1.5m in emergency funding while it explores a potential merger feweek.co.uk/1-5m-emergen...
£1.5m emergency funding as Newbury considers merger
Cashflow pressure has been eased while the FE Commissioner reviews the college's long-term future
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February 6, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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🗞️This week's FE Week front page:

How colleges are stepping in as 14-16s step out of school

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February 5, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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📢 Work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden backtracked on a statement claiming 60+ employers had committed jobs for NEET young people for the flagship job guarantee scheme

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McFadden over-stated employer interest in jobs guarantee
Work and pensions secretary backtracks on claim 60+ employers already 'committed' jobs for NEET young people
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February 5, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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⏳️ The defunding of BTECs and other applied general qualifications could be delayed further, the skills minister has indicated feweek.co.uk/dfe-consider...
DfE considers BTEC defunding delay
Transition plan to new V Levels set to be published alongside level 3 and below pathways consultation response
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February 5, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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'There is a danger pressure is being pushed downwards'
Claudia Boerescu of Waltham Forest College on the risks of AI adding more work pressure onto FE staff
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February 5, 2026 at 3:33 PM