Jan 9, 2025 · 2025 will be a pivotal year for FE. With a new government in office and a Spending Review on the horizon, decisions in the coming months will shape the funding landscape through to 2028.

Jan 6, 2025 · Sixth form college leaders have dropped legal action against the government’s FE teacher pay snub after ministers “agreed to provide funding” to support a wage increase in 2024/25.

Oct 10, 2024 · Skills minister Jacqui Smith introduced a 12-page bill in the House of Lords yesterday which will transfer all of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education’s (IfATE) powers to the Department for Education, paving the way for Skills England.. Here’s your trusty FE Week explainer on what’s in the bill, and what happens next:

Oct 30, 2024 · Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered Labour’s first budget in almost 15 years this afternoon.. Here’s what was announced for FE and skills. £300m for FE – but for what? The headline funding announcement was a £300 million additional cash investment for further education.. But Treasury documents fail to say exactly what this funding is to be spent on or whether it will just be colleges ...

Jan 8, 2025 · Calls to ban graduates from publicly funded apprenticeships have resurfaced after new data revealed over £400 million in levy funds was spent on people who already held a bachelor’s degree or higher last year. Freedom of Information request figures show that one in six apprentices (56,000) were university alumni in 2023/24, including 14,000 people with

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Dec 30, 2024 · Hull College vice principal and Bradford College governor Lynette Leith has been made an OBE for services to further education. Leith began her career in FE in 2008 as a hairdressing lecturer, but she quickly rose through the ranks of curriculum management to senior leader at various colleges, including Uxbridge College, Hertford Regional College, and Loughborough College.

Sep 23, 2024 · The government plans to remove some level 7 apprenticeships from the scope of levy funding, FE Week understands. Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer is expected to highlight steps to reform the apprenticeship levy into a growth and skills levy – so that it can be used to pay for other types of training – during his speech at Labour’s party conference tomorrow.

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Sep 11, 2024 · The government’s education funding agency will be closed down next year, the education secretary has announced.. The Education and Skills Funding Agency will be “integrated into the core Department for Education” by the end of March 2025.