Apprenticeships

‘Less ambitious’ nursing apprenticeships pledge criticised

New target comes ahead of a ‘refreshed’ NHS workforce plan later this year

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships, Colleges, Ofsted

College-run ITP awarded its own ‘outstanding’ 

The feat means all parts of a West Mids college group now hold Ofsted’s top grade

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Migrant skills tax take tumbled by £100m last year

Income from the immigration skills charge fell for the first time in four years amid calls for transparency over…

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

College taken to High Court over £6.6m row with developers

A college director allegedly said he would ‘run around Wandsworth Park naked’ if the deal didn’t go through

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Ofsted, Training Providers

Training provider to close after 40 years following damning Ofsted report

Managing director blasts ‘unfair’ inspection which found ‘ineffective’ safeguarding

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Politics

Saqib Bhatti appointed as Conservative shadow education minister

New shadow minister takes aim at level 7 apprenticeship cuts and tax rises on FE providers

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


Results 2025, T Levels

VTQ and T Level results 2025: 7 key trends

From industry placements to gender gaps – today’s VTQ and T Level results explained

Shane Chowen
Anviksha Patel and Shane Chowen
Results 2025

A-level results 2025: Top grades rise slightly again this year

Ofqual says results rise could be because this year’s cohort made ‘better post-16 choices’

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Results 2025

A-level results 2025: 8 key trends in England’s data

Your handy FE Week round up of the key trends in this year’s A-level results

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Results 2025, T Levels

T Level results 2025: Pass rate up and dropouts down

Proportion receiving top grades stays static

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Labour think tank’s radical plan to tackle apprenticeship levy’s ‘abject failure’

Give SMEs ’skin in the game’ by making more employers pay the charge, ban graduates, end the Treasury top-slice…

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Ofsted

Child’s play: Early years apprenticeship provider gets top Ofsted marks

Daycare training provider rewarded for high level of distinctions for apprentices

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel

Must read

Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Long read

Colleges on the frontline of a divided nation

As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read

Alun Francis, chair of the Social Mobility Commission

Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release

‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill