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Senior Reporter at FE Week josh.mellor@feweek.co.uk. Covering all things FE - training, apprenticeships and further education. @joshmellorfeweek.bsky.social

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Colleges favoured as ITPs get less for adult skills in Greater Manchester

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By Josh Mellor Verified
| FE Week Verified
Greater Manchester’s independent training providers will be excluded from an adult skills funding rate uplift offered to colleges and councils next year. The region’s combined authority will boost qualification funding rates by 3.2 per cent in 2026-27 for grant-funded colleges and local authorities. But independent training providers delivering adult skills fund (ASF) provision under procured contracts will only receive one-year extensions, and receive no extra money.
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City College Norwich CEO to step down

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By Josh Mellor Verified
| FE Week Verified
City College Norwich’s principal Jerry White will step down this summer. White, who has led the Norfolk college group since 2022, will move to a role supporting colleges to engage with SEND reform at the Association of Colleges (AoC) from September. In an announcement today, the college said future leadership arrangements will be published “in due course” and that governors “will now begin” recruiting White’s successor.
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£3m in bonuses for C&G bosses? It doesn’t add up

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By Josh Mellor Verified
| FE Week Verified
Conflicting accounts continue to emerge about whether City & Guilds Foundation trustees knew large bonuses were paid to senior executives after the sale of their awarding business. Bosses at new owner PeopleCert this week alleged former awarding body chief executive Kirstie Donnelly and chief financial officer Abid Ismail paid themselves bonuses worth almost £3 million without PeopleCert’s or City & Guilds charity trustees’ knowledge.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes! For some reason my mother had one at home as she was a PA at the BFI just before computers were a thing everyone had in their offices.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

April O'Neil

What does it mean to be a journalist?

To ask questions, sometimes very obvious ones, that haven't been asked.