WorldSkills

EuroSkills 2023: WorldSkills UK alumni leads opening ceremony rousing speeches

Dan McCabe won gold in 3D Digital Game Art at EuroSkills 2016

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Politics

Keir Starmer appoints new shadow skills minister

Toby Perkins has been replaced by Seema Malhotra as shadow skills minister

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Ofsted

Sir Martyn Oliver sets out his priorities for the Ofsted top job

The academy boss has pledged to run a ‘big listen’ with the sector and is eyeing allowing HMIs to…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Adult education

National AEB contract allocations revealed

15 providers awarded max amounts – including 3 judged Ofsted ‘requires improvement’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, Strikes

National college strike ballot opens

Two in three staff warn they will quit without big pay rise

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, RAAC

RAAC: No colleges forced to delay start of term, says AoC

Confirmed cases of some colleges with dangerous concrete, but no ‘significant’ closures

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein


Apprenticeships, Ofsted

Ofsted ‘outstanding’ hat-trick for Premier League apprenticeship provider

‘Ambitious’ Football Association Premier League Limited praised for ‘high expectations’

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
WorldSkills

EuroSkills 2023: Well wishes pour out for Team UK ahead of Poland competition

Team UK’s 20 competitors will compete in Gdańsk next week

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Three new deputy FE commissioners join Legrave 

Former college principals are among the appointees

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Colleges, Teaching

8 key findings from DfE’s first FE workforce data release

The stats were promised in the Skills for Jobs white paper

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

ESFA intervenes as Leicestershire college group hits ‘serious cashflow pressures’

FE Commissioner to visit SMB Group due to ‘heighted risk’

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
News

David Johnston appointed children’s minister as Coutinho promoted

He becomes the seventh minister to oversee the important SEND reforms

John Dickens
John Dickens

Must read

Qualifications

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
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
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