Apprenticeships English and maths apprenticeship reforms: 24-25 rules updated Exit requirement ditched for apprentices aged 19+ on the day of their start Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Apprenticeships Exclusive Apprenticeships behind bars follows open jail failure Scheme expanded inside prison walls despite just 10 prisoners undertaking apprenticeships since 2022 Anviksha Patel 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Devolution Skills devolution spreads with plan for six new regions Millions in skills funding will be handed to mayors, with ringfences lifted on budgets Josh Mellor 2mo Josh Mellor 2mo Colleges, Industrial action NEU ends sixth form college pay dispute Members accept 4.3 per cent deal with ‘firm assurances’ of future pay equality Shane Chowen 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo T Levels No answers for failed T Level students in re-mark fiasco College and awarding organisation have failed to resolve the issue six months on Josh Mellor 2mo Josh Mellor 2mo Adult education, DfE Come clean on cuts, demand adult education providers Providers face uncertainty after news emerged in a ‘fragmented’ fashion Josh Mellor 2mo Josh Mellor 2mo Apprenticeships Exclusive Make apprenticeship funding top priority, poll suggests But parents still prefer to send children to university over taking up apprenticeships Anviksha Patel 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Apprenticeships Short isn’t sweet for apprenticeship standards warning Government plans to move from a 12 to 8 month minimum duration by August Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Apprenticeships Faster apprenticeship payments to providers as DfE ditches duplicate data Database fix to cut admin and speed up apprenticeship funding payments Shane Chowen 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo Apprenticeships Providers to assess apprentices in EPA overhaul DfE claims more red tape cut as it confirms assessment rule changes Shane Chowen 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo Colleges, Industrial action 23 sixth form colleges vote to strike in NASUWT ballot But the union has been criticised for also balloting teachers in academised sixth form colleges not involved in the… Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Politics, Skills reform IfATE abolition laws pass the Lords Amendments to delay full rollout of Skills England likely to be overturned Shane Chowen 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo Newer 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 802 Older Must read Colleges Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying… Anviksha Patel 2w Anviksha Patel 2w T Levels NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students Anviksha Patel 3w Anviksha Patel 3w Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 4w Josh Mellor 4w Next 3 stories Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps Exclusive Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments Billy Camden 1mo Billy Camden and Frances Read 1mo Apprenticeships Entrepreneur chased for millions after apprenticeship collapse ESFA uncovers ‘fake’ taxi apprentices as liquidator reveals intercompany payments days after firm decided to shut Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Adult education Exclusive Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding Shane Chowen 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo
