Adult education Refugee and coffee shop owner among adult learning award finalists London’s second Adult Learning Awards, sponsored by FE Week and Ascentis, is less than two weeks away Shane Chowen 2y Shane Chowen 2y Sponsored post Sponsored Transform your ESOL learners’ English language skills through ESB’s external assessments High-quality externally assessed ESOL Skills for Life qualifications that accurately measure language proficiency Advertorial 2y English Speaking Board (International) Ltd 2y Colleges York College principal steps down due to health reasons Lee Probert has left with immediate effect Joshua Stein 2y Joshua Stein 2y Sponsored post Sponsored Teach Inspire Create: A conference to explore the future of creative education! Don’t miss UAL Awarding Body’s Teach Inspire Create Conference 2023, as it returns this November! If you are a… Shane Mann 2y UAL Awarding Body 2y 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 2y Joshua Stein 2y 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 2y Samantha Booth 2y News Exclusive Firm that took over Learndirect owes ‘large debt’ to ESFA, liquidators reveal Audit finds ‘ineligible funding claims’ Billy Camden 2y Billy Camden 2y News Provider won max national AEB allocation after appeal Portland Training awarded £2.5m in DfE’s controversial tender Billy Camden 2y Billy Camden 2y 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 2y Anviksha Patel 2y 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 2y Anviksha Patel 2y 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 2y Shane Chowen 2y Colleges, RAAC RAAC confirmed at 2 more colleges, says DfE Number of total cases in education settings up to 214 Joshua Stein 2y Joshua Stein 2y Newer 1 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 832 Older Must read 16-19 Long read Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals Anviksha Patel 1d Anviksha Patel 1d News Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the… Shane Chowen 1w Shane Chowen 1w Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 2w Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 2w Next 3 stories Qualifications Exclusive 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Colleges, Long read 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo
