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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 13h

'Legislation creates a new layer of obligations and risks'
Kamal Chauhan and Charlotte Cassells of Shakespeare Martineau on the implications of the economic crime act for FE providers

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 16h

✍️ To meet the PM's new target, we need a skills system built to last with routes in an up for all, writes Federation of Awarding Bodies CEO Rob Nitsch

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Lasting progress depends on a connected, durable skills system

The success of Labour’s skills vision depends on whether it can create a system that’s stable, connected and built to endure, writes Rob Nitsch

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 20h

🤷‍♂️ Some sector leaders are sceptical about Labour’s plans for raising standards, arguing the FE Commissioner and existing support networks are sufficient.
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Principals scratch their heads over new improvement teams

Some sector leaders are sceptical about Labour’s plans for raising standards, arguing the FE Commissioner and existing support networks are sufficient.

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 21h

🔎 Weston College is now free of the financial intervention triggered a year ago when multi-million pound payments to ex-principal Sir Paul Phillips were exposed

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Weston freed of ‘traumatic’ NTI - but DfE probe continues

College out of intervention after strengthening governance procedures

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 21h

Being bunched with schools in the upcoming schools white paper means FE is made to take medicine for symptoms it is not suffering from. What are the consequences?
Ruth Perry, @natspec.bsky.social

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 22h

Exclusive: The Department for Education quietly spent almost £3m on first-of-their-kind compensation payments to dozens of training providers after admitting to a botched apprenticeship funding band decision feweek.co.uk/revealed-dfe...

DfE's special payments to providers after funding blunder

Wheels in motion for convoy of claims after unprecedented payouts

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 22h

🤝 Skills England should challenge the government over FE funding gaps and 'excessive competition and poor alignment' between colleges and universities, a new report has said feweek.co.uk/skills-engla...

Skills England urged to confront government on FE funding

Joint AoC and UUK report also calls for 'excessive' competition to be challenged

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 1d

🗞️This week's FE Week front page:

HGV training providers’ compensation truck load

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🔍 A union which criticised an 'unhelpful cottage industry around preparing for inspections' is running its own webinars to help leaders prepare for Ofsted report card visits – at nearly £150 a pop feweek.co.uk/ascl-joins-o...

ASCL joins Ofsted preparation ‘cottage industry’ it once criticised

Watchdog urges leaders not to 'spend limited resources' on preparing for inspection after union launches paid-for webinars

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 1d

Why Ofsted should ensure that apprenticeship pass rates – not retention – take centre stage
Daniel Waterhouse, Lancaster and Morecambe College

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 2d

🆕 The former head of apprenticeships at UCAS is set to become CEO of the Association of Apprentices feweek.co.uk/lindsay-conr...

Lindsay Conroy appointed Association of Apprentices CEO

The former UCAS apprenticeships lead will replace Emily Rock

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 2d

👉 Independent training providers that fail to submit their accounts to the Department for Education on time will be automatically hit with an ‘inadequate’ financial health rating, according to new rules.
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ITPs face automatic 'inadequate’ financial rating for late accounts

Independent training providers that fail to submit their accounts to the DfE on time will be automatically hit with an ‘inadequate’ financial rating

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 2d

There's a free new guide out now from @theeef.bsky.social that college leaders should know about, offering evidence-based steps to design PD

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 2d

⛑️ The government, employers, and individuals should inject an extra £2.2 billion every year over the next decade to restore skills attainment to 2010 levels, boost the economy and save £8 billion annually for the taxpayer, a think tank has said

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10-year adult ed rescue plan would boost economy by £22bn

New report calls for tripling level 2 and 3 achievements and expanded lifelong loan entitlement

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 3d

📢 Kemi Badenoch plans to double the apprenticeships budget by slashing university degrees if the Conservatives win the next election

The leader of the opposition will pledge to ‘shut down rip-off courses’ in her party conference speech today

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Badenoch: I'll double apprenticeships budget by slashing uni degrees

Leader of the opposition would reintroduce student number controls for 'poor quality' uni courses to fund apprenticeship boost

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 3d

📢 Kemi Badenoch plans to double the apprenticeships budget by slashing university degrees if the Conservatives win the next election

The leader of the opposition will pledge to ‘shut down rip-off courses’ in her party conference speech tomorrow

https://feweek.co.uk/badenoch-ill-double-apprenticeships-budget-by-slashing-uni-degrees/

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 3d

'Somebody with AI skills on their CV will always be more competitive than somebody without them'
Daniel Wright, on Barnsley College's new 'Introduction to AI' course

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 4d

🆕 Tax-free bursaries worth up to £31,000 to further education trainee teachers in key STEM shortage subjects will continue to be offered next year, the government has confirmed feweek.co.uk/31k-fe-teach...

£31k FE teacher training bursaries to continue in 2026-27

Experts say bursaries are 'very effective for recruiting more teachers and retaining additional teachers long-term' amid Labour's 6.5k pledge

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 4d

Colleges are being told to professionalise theig governance – should that mean paying their chairs, just as the NHS and housing associations already do?

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 4d

😨 An apprenticeship provider in Kent has accused Ofsted inspectors of creating a 'state of fear' for its staff following an ‘inadequate’ result

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‘Inadequate’ apprenticeship provider loses Ofsted challenge

The firm unsuccessfully contested the rating

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 4d

'Instead of a restaurant with vegetarian options and a pensioner discount, we're running a niche café that only serves vegetarian over-65s and wondering why the money doesn't add up'
Mark Dawe, @theskillsnetwork.bsky.social

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 4d

🕺 This week's movers and shakers feature a former minister and a college chair who's a fan of all things French
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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 509

Laura Woods Chair, Middlesbrough College Start date: August 2025 Previous job: Former Director of Academic Enterprise, Teesside University Interesting fact: Laura found a whole new world of interests…

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 4d

✈️ A record-breaking number of applications to the Turing Scheme were rejected by the government this year following a spike in interest ahead of the programme’s expected closure
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More than half of Turing trips turned down

A record-breaking number of applications to the Turing Scheme were rejected by the government this year following a spike in interest ahead of closure

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 4d

With more FE college governance failures emerging, the debate over whether college chairs should be paid is heating up. FE Week reveals which colleges have paid their chairs, how much and why

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'What young people say they value most are experiences that feel authentic'
Natasha Eason of @cimspa.co.uk on why careers guidance is letting too many young people down

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