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skills

DfE plans ‘classification’ tool to fix ‘fragmented and deficient’ skills system

New system would also help employers be ‘more innovative and flexible’

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Colleges, Staff

Strikes: Government to introduce minimum service levels in colleges

DfE says if a voluntary agreement is not reached with unions, it will use powers through the new strikes…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News
Billy Camden
News

Provider won max national AEB allocation after appeal

Portland Training awarded £2.5m in DfE’s controversial tender

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
T Levels

Confirmed: DfE will chop all courses that compete with wave 3 T Levels

Experts say the reforms have ‘no credibility left’ after Advanced British Standard announcement

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel


NEET

‘Worrying’: Out of work and training 18-year-olds hits highest rate since 2009

Overall proportion of 16-18s not in education, employment or training (NEET) also rises

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Higher education

Uni foundation year numbers up 700% in 10 years

New figures reveal foundation year courses are less likely to improve incomes

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges, RAAC

RAAC confirmed at 2 more colleges, says DfE

Number of total cases in education settings up to 214

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Apprenticeships, Higher education

UCAS launches new apprenticeship service

University admissions body officially adds apprenticeship options to its site

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Apprenticeships, Ofsted

Care recruiter turned training provider ‘unable to verify’ apprentices have jobs

Ofsted hits firm with ‘inadequate’ after failing to evidence funding claims

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
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

Must read

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