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👉 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 · 4h

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 · 5h

⛑️ 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 · 7h

📢 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 · 17h

📢 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

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 1d

'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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🆕 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 · 1d

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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😨 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 · 2d

'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 · 2d

🕺 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 · 2d

✈️ 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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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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'Moving from a three to five year strategy cycle reflects our determination to drive long-term outcomes'
Andrew Hockey of the ECITB on tackling the engineering skills shortage head on

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🪧 Staff at 68 colleges will ballot on whether to strike over demands for a 'serious' pay offer, action on workloads and national pay bargaining
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UCU launches England-wide college strike ballot

Staff at 68 colleges will ballot on whether to strike over demands for a “serious” pay offer, action on workloads and national pay bargaining

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 5d

Every government department has it's own culture, so what can DWP's tell us about future prospects for skills policy?
Ex-civil servant Alex Morris, of MH&A

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 5d

'Let’s pilot our strongest school trusts running struggling colleges'
@wbickfordsmith.bsky.social (who was policy advisor under Keegan as education secretary) on bringing FE colleges up to the same 'rigorous' standards as schools

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 5d

🤫 Subsidies to develop a set of flagship technical qualifications were quietly ditched after ministers shifted resources as part of the spending review, FE Week has learned.
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DfE ditches funding to develop HTQ courses

Subsidies to develop a set of flagship technical qualifications have been quietly ditched after ministers shifted resources as part of the spending review

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 5d

📉 Strikes have started at a London college group over 'intolerable' plans to freeze sixth-form teacher salaries until they equalise with the rest of the group’s lecturers
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CCC teachers begin strikes over sixth-form pay freeze

Strikes have started at a London college group over management's 'intolerable' plans to freeze sixth-form teacher salaries

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 5d

Exclusive: Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of shirking accountability after Downing Street admitted his 'bold new target' for two-thirds of young people to enter higher-level learning has no deadline feweek.co.uk/starmer-swer...

Starmer swerves a deadline for headline ‘two-thirds’ target

'If there’s no date for people to work towards, then it’s just a vague aspiration', says ex-SpAd

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 5d

✌️ Breaking: Ministers are poised to announce new V Level qualifications as 'third route' between A-levels and T Levels

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

Ministers are poised to announce new qualifications as 'third route' between A-levels and T Levels as colleges prepare to axe applied generals

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 5d

Good evening! Coming up in this week’s FE Week:

Coming soon: V Levels

Ministers set to reveal new vocational quals as axe looms for BTECs

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 5d

'Vocational learning is not seen as second best'
Liam Sloan, principal of Bolton College provides some lessons for FE from his time Down Under

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🤥 Viral claims that Euan Blair’s apprenticeship provider will receive a £100 billion contract to create the government’s new digital ID app have been debunked

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Multiverse: £100bn digital ID contract is a Blair faced lie

'We are not an app provider, even for £100 billion...'

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