WorldSkills

EuroSkills 2023: Restaurant services with a smile

Competitors tasked with fine dining and bistro services after gruelling training programme

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, RAAC

RAAC surveys delayed due to lack of specialists

But no colleges have had to delay the start of term because of crumbling RAAC concrete

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Colleges

All quiet on the Weston front: Hunt for permanent principal drags on

Questions remain over Sir Paul Phillips’ president position after stepping down as principal

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
AEB

DfE hands out extra AEB contract

National tender confusion and controversy mounts

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
WorldSkills

EuroSkills 2023: Team UK competitors productive and positive after day 1

Gordon Ramsay restaurant chef among the UK’s young stars getting off to a good start

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

RAAC: 1 college named as DfE finally publishes list of affected schools

But all students at the college remain in face-to-face education

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


WorldSkills

EuroSkills 2023: WorldSkills UK alumni leads opening ceremony rousing speeches

Dan McCabe won gold in 3D Digital Game Art at EuroSkills 2016

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Politics

Keir Starmer appoints new shadow skills minister

Toby Perkins has been replaced by Seema Malhotra as shadow skills minister

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Ofsted

Sir Martyn Oliver sets out his priorities for the Ofsted top job

The academy boss has pledged to run a ‘big listen’ with the sector and is eyeing allowing HMIs to…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
AEB

National AEB contract allocations revealed

15 providers awarded max amounts – including 3 judged Ofsted ‘requires improvement’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, Strikes

National college strike ballot opens

Two in three staff warn they will quit without big pay rise

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, RAAC

RAAC: No colleges forced to delay start of term, says AoC

Confirmed cases of some colleges with dangerous concrete, but no ‘significant’ closures

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein

Must read

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
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
Anviksha Patel