Apprenticeships ‘Fantastic result’: Apprenticeship achievement rate hits 60.5% Minister heaps praise on providers as the apprentice drop out rate also significantly reduces Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Sponsored post Sponsored Skills Bootcamps Are Changing – What FE Colleges Must Know Skills Bootcamps are evolving as funding moves to local control and digital skills trends shift. Code Institute, an Ofsted… Code Institute 2mo Code Institute 2mo Budget 2025 Spring statement 2025: What the chancellor announced for FE Adult education and skills could be hit by ‘another £200m’ in cuts in coming years, expert warns Josh Mellor 2mo Josh Mellor 2mo Apprenticeships DfE ditches draft apprenticeship funding rules Expert fears ‘vital contributions’ from front line staff will be missed Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Colleges, Skills reform ‘New ways of doing FE’ inquiry: Experts give evidence to MPs ‘I actually don’t think we know how well the resit policy is benefiting young people,’ committee hears Anviksha Patel 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo News DfE shaves £500m off T Levels spending Huge cost adjustment caused by low student numbers, DfE claims Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Ofsted Sumo Games apprenticeship arm crushes Ofsted inspection But likely loss of level 7 subsidy will impact the small training operation Josh Mellor 2mo Josh Mellor 2mo Ofsted ASCL floats ‘3+ point’ grading scale for Ofsted and calls for reform delay Association warns Ofsted’s five-point grading plan would leave ‘school and college leaders in a worse position than they are… Freddie Whittaker 2mo Freddie Whittaker 2mo Colleges FE is top sector for sending deprived students on Turing trips FE providers have sent over 22,000 underprivileged students on international placements in four years Anviksha Patel 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Long read Profile A new hope for UTCs Despite being written off as a failure by Michael Gove, Baker Dearing CEO Kate Ambrosi believes university technical colleges… Jessica Hill 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo Construction, skills Chancellor to pour £600m into construction training Plans include technical excellence colleges, cash incentives for foundation apprenticeships, skills bootcamps and more Josh Mellor 2mo Josh Mellor 2mo T Levels DfE scraps three more T Levels Meanwhile Pearson scoops health and science contracts from NCFE and digital T Levels get new names Shane Chowen 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo Newer 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 809 Older Must read Long read, Prison education Long read 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 2w Jessica Hill 2w Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 4w Billy Camden 4w Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 2mo Josh Mellor 2mo
