Apprenticeships, Ofsted

Engineering training provider scoops another ‘outstanding’

Inspectors praise TTE Training’s ‘highly ambitious curriculum’ and ‘relentless’ focus on safeguarding

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Joshua Stein
Colleges, T Levels

Colleges share £100m for ‘fit for purpose’ T Level-ready buildings

107 projects win cash for wave five of the rollout

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education, Devolution

West Mids to fund ‘study programmes’ for young adults

Young adults to benefit from a raft of measures set to boost the number of level 3 qualifications in…

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Joshua Stein
Colleges, Ofsted, SEND

SEND college to close after second ‘inadequate’ rating

Farleigh FE college will close its doors to learners with autism this summer

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Collab Group CEO to retire in August

Ian Pretty will step down after eight years at the helm

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
T Levels

T Levels: Government departments not ‘walking the walk’ on industry placements

Even the government body designed to promote T Levels only offered a few

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Shane Chowen


Apprenticeships

Big employers back call for ‘off-the-job’ name change

‘Confusing’ title is exacerbating high withdrawal rates

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Labour, Ofsted

Ofsted chief sounds warning over Labour safeguarding audit plan

Amanda Spielman said plans to separate safeguarding from Ofsted inspections would be ‘much more expensive and complicated’

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
T Levels

Catering T Level in doubt as awarding body ends development

‘There is not a shared vision of the technical qualification’, says IfATE

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
T Levels

NCFE transfers two T Level licences to rival

Pearson to take over craft and design and media, broadcast and production

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Qualifications

Labour pledges to pause and review BTECs cull

Party would not defund any AGQs under the current timeline if it wins the next general election

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
GCSEs

More research needed into GCSE resit teaching methods, charity says

No robust evidence base for post-16 English and maths teaching, EEF concludes

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel

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Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal

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