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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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🪓 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

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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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📰 FE Week Weekly News Update

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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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#TomorrowsPapersToday
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
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🗳️ Jo Grady could face a re-ballot over her position as University and College Union leader amid claims she broke campaign rules

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Watchdog to hear claims Jo Grady broke UCU election rules
The general secretary narrowly won the 2024 ballot by 182 votes
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February 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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A university has been fined £150,000 by the exams regulator for failing to closely monitor a music qualification test centre and 'negligence' in handling an independent audit
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University-owned awarding org fined for ‘negligence’ by Ofqual
A university has been fined £150,000 by the exams regulator for failing to closely monitor a music qualification test centre.
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February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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🪧 Nearly two-thirds of University and College Union (UCU) staff are set to walk out next week in another row between the union and its own staff

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UCU staff walk out over alleged ‘trade union victimisation’
Leaders of the union call the claims ‘categorically untrue’
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February 4, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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📋️ Ofsted inspectors have warned against high 16 to 18 dropout rates and weak GCSE resit progress among the first FE colleges to be inspected under the inspectorate’s renewed framework

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First college report cards flag dropout risks and GCSE flaws
Inspectors hand out 'needs attention' grades to colleges with poor retention rates amongst 16-18 learners
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February 4, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Due to a focus on reading by the prison inspectorate and Ofsted, progress is being made on literacy in prisons. But new education contracts have now cut education provision across the board
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February 4, 2026 at 3:42 PM