WorldSkills

Team UK for EuroSkills 2025 announced

The UK’s best will head to Herning, Denmark to compete later this year

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Careers

‘Short-sighted’: DfE controversially cuts ASK careers scheme funding

Providers say the programme has helped thousands of young people understand their career options

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

South west colleges reignite merger talks

Governors hope to sign off on the Devon merger in November

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Ofsted

Eureka! Science trainer given Ofsted’s highest grade

Inspectorate full of praise for 500 learner-strong Birmingham-based provider’s curriculum and teaching

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills bootcamps

Only builder bootcamps extended as scheme dismantled

Local leaders in some parts of the country will continue bootcamps for other sectors

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
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


News

Safety trainer BSC fined for anti-fraud failures

‘Long running, repeated and systemic failures’ related to CSCS cards exposed

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
T Levels

T Levels will hit sustainable levels ‘by 2029’ 

DfE officials ‘confident’ of hitting new forecasts after huge shortfall in early years of the qualification’s rollout

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
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Apprenticeships

Replace level 2s with foundation apprenticeships, says report

Uni VC claims ‘many’ level 2 apprenticeships have ‘not offered high-quality training, nor been sufficiently accessible to potential learners’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
T Levels

‘Disappointment’ as T Levels funding rate uplift halved

Decision comes weeks after the NAO revealed a £688m underspend on the total T Level budget

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills England

Skills England: Ministers will make decisions on FE resources, not us

Highlights from Skills England’s first grilling by the education committee

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel

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