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
covid

Judge upholds 71-year-old teacher’s Covid complaints

The teacher argued that she had been subjected to indirect age discrimination

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Training Providers

‘Inadequate’ provider stops trading with almost £1m in unpaid bills

Adult care provider likely won’t be able to pay back any debts

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Apprenticeships, Ofsted

Ofsted slams apprenticeship provider for training ‘more akin to CPD’

Inspectors said apprentices already had experience of the sector so shouldn’t be eligible for apprenticeship funding

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
AEB, Training Providers

PeoplePlus walks away from AEB delivery

Three years ago PeoplePlus held the largest national AEB contract among all independent training providers

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Colleges, Governance

Unpresidented: College in ‘crisis’ over best-paid CEO’s new role

Governance concerns as accusations of nepotism also come to light

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel

Must read

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
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