Apprenticeships

NHS to save level 7 apprenticeships from funding axe

‘Mitigation fund’ launched for five health and social care professions

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Skills bootcamps

Fake employer used for ‘fraudulent’ skills bootcamp cash claims

Police investigating while firm that secured £22m contracts sues DfE

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Devolution

Mayor’s money to heat up FE ‘cold spots’

Capital funding dished out to providers to target towns with a training provision ‘deficit’

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Ofsted

Ofsted sounds siren over ambulance provider’s apprenticeships

Apprentices aren’t supported with learning after their initial training, inspectors find at north east firm

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Prison education

Existing providers win £1.5bn prison education ‘overhaul’

Critics warn the system will continue to fail unless more drastic action is taken

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Apprenticeships

CareShield exits apprenticeships to protect learners from staff shortages 

Sector-wide challenges made it ‘increasingly difficult’ to deliver high-quality training, provider’s leaders say

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


Ofsted

Ofsted: Young people ‘at risk’ at G4S-run secure training centre

Sir Martyn Oliver invokes rare ‘urgent notification’ after finding systemic safeguarding failures at Oakhill STC

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Awarding

WJEC exam board fined £350k over wrong GCSE results

Ofqual to issue WJEC with six-figure penalty after 1,527 GCSE students received incorrect results

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
net zero

Green skills funding results delayed over premature course adverts

Providers were caught promoting courses before funding had been confirmed

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges

ESOL results probes launched into The Sheffield College

Two staff members have been suspended pending multiple investigations, according to reports

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Sponsored post

Funding Adult Green Skills

New sources of funding are available to finance the delivery of green skills to all learners. Government policy is…

Tyler Palmer
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Colleges

New principal takes the helm at ‘outstanding’ London college

Incoming boss Marta Gajewska vows to ‘keep raising the bar’

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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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
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden