Ofsted, Prison education

Prison leaders slammed for ‘slow progress’ on reading education

Education and prisons watchdogs criticise lack of progress on last year’s damning report on reading education

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
T Levels

Pandemic-induced online learning was ‘greatest barrier’ for T Level and transition students

Learner survey shows Covid-19 pandemic-related restrictions impacted delivery of T Levels

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Assessment

Ofqual and DfE studying ‘feasibility’ of ‘fully digital’ exams

Study includes looking at whether national infrastructure up to scratch for on-screen exams

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Ofsted, SEND

Yorkshire SEND college fails to make safeguarding progress after third Ofsted visit in four months

Watchdog finds college had made insufficient progress in keeping learners safe

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Careers education

Fund careers advisers directly to ease burden on colleges, DfE told

Leaving colleges to foot the bill is creating ‘significant disparities’ in careers provision, says committee

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
WorldSkills

WorldSkills UK rolls out Centre of Excellence after three-year pilot

UK further and higher education organisations can now access ‘world-class’ teacher training and networks through the scheme

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein


Apprenticeships, Politics

Perkins pledges additional spending on SME apprenticeships

Labour’s plan to replace the apprenticeship levy won’t reduce SME apprenticeships, the shadow minister said

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Devolution, Long read

Skills and training: the centrepiece of Brabin’s northern project

The mayor claims to have used her adult education budget to target areas where change was needed most, but…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
News

Capita loses out on £233m Teachers’ Pension Scheme contract to Indian IT firm

Outsourcing firm has run the pension scheme for 27 years, but also recently pulled out of teacher training contract

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Politics

College principal to succeed Birbalsingh as social mobility chair

Alun Francis has been filling in as interim chair since ‘country’s strictest headteacher’ resigned in January

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Apprenticeships

Exceptional funding review: Care apprenticeships boosted by a third

Care apprenticeships will receive larger than expected funding increases

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Training Providers

AELP chief Jane Hickie to stand down

The training body boss will officially leave at the end of this week

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen

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