Colleges, sixth form colleges

‘Groundbreaking’ school and college partnership to deliver new sixth form

Richmond Upon Thames College and neighbouring school to open new sixth form to 50 students next year

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Apprenticeships

Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards honour diverse talent and inclusive employers

Award winners praised for demonstrating ‘remarkable dedication and resilience’

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
News

Training provider calls it quits after 50 years

Key Training locks its doors after failing to renew borrowing facilities

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Portable flexi-jobs apprenticeship pilot flops

Providers hit less than 1% of their target with just 2 months to go

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Apprenticeships, career change, Skills bootcamps

Workers face £40k financial penalty if they switch careers, research warns

Experts call for lifelong learning entitlement to be expanded to help ease financial burden

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Apprenticeships

IFS calls for uniform subsidy rate for apprenticeship levy

Economists also warn that Labour’s plan to expand the levy risks ‘significant deadweight costs’

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein


News

Oliver formally confirmed as next Ofsted chief inspector

Schools boss pledges to be ’empathetic, compassionate and understanding of the challenges that those of us working in education…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Ofqual extends term-time checkpoints to hundreds of thousands more VTQ students

Extra workload anticipated for schools and colleges to ensure grades are handed out on time

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

Dwindling SME starts drag down apprenticeship figures in 2022/23

Starts for level 2 also continue to fall while higher levels shoot up

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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How apprenticeships can provide effective employee retention

People want to be the best that they can be, and an apprenticeship gives them a structure to do…

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Ofsted

Top Ofsted marks for Bristol apprenticeship provider in first full inspection

Professional Apprenticeships judged ‘outstanding’, with inspectors citing high pass rates

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Strike ballot fails to meet turnout threshold in half of colleges

UCU members at 32 colleges are, however, set to strike

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel

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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
Colleges, FE Commissioner

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel