News RAAC: 10 colleges will get removal grants 234 education settings have now been identified as having confirmed RAAC Billy Camden 3mo Billy Camden 3mo Apprenticeships Care apprenticeship provider slated for focus on diploma rather than OTJ and EPA Ofsted also slams ‘poor’ training as director strips back staff numbers Billy Camden 3mo Billy Camden 3mo Ofsted Birmingham sixth form college awarded ‘outstanding’ second time running The city’s only sixth form college praised for ambitious curriculums for thousands of learners Anviksha Patel 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo Apprenticeships First apprentices awarded ‘professional status’ post-nominals Sixteen former apprentices first to be awarded professional status through new recognition scheme Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo News Ofsted rejects RAAC inspection exemption call But crumbly concrete disruption will be ‘sufficient grounds to defer the inspection’ Freddie Whittaker 3mo Freddie Whittaker 3mo Apprenticeships Exclusive Hundreds of small businesses utilise removal of apprenticeship cap Some SMEs have recruited over 50 apprentices since April 2023 policy change Billy Camden 3mo Billy Camden 3mo News Electric car charging grants for colleges rise to £2,500 Ministers say colleges could generate revenue by allowing the public to use their charging points Freddie Whittaker 3mo Freddie Whittaker 3mo News Ofsted orders review into wiped evidence claims It has been revealed how technical glitches force inspectors to re-record inspection evidence, sometimes from memory Freddie Whittaker 3mo Freddie Whittaker 3mo Apprenticeships School teacher degree apprenticeship to launch in 2025 The four-year course will come with 40 per cent off-the-job training requirement Freddie Whittaker 3mo Freddie Whittaker 3mo Apprenticeships Construction giant could face £17m clawback after apprenticeship data error Construction body increases pot by nearly 50 per cent for ESFA clawback Anviksha Patel 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo FE Commissioner FE Commissioner flags insolvency risk after Leicestershire college ‘took their eye off the ball’ SMB Group propped up by emergency funding from FE Commissioner Josh Barrie 3mo Josh Barrie 3mo Apprenticeships Exclusive ESFA failing to curb apprentice assessment ‘bundling’ Awarding bodies call for clarity after rules watered down and culprits ‘hide in plain sight’ Billy Camden 3mo Billy Camden 3mo Newer 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 750 Older Must read Colleges, Long read Long read Resilient Ricketts: How Brooklands was saved from going broke The story of a college’s fight for survival after a subcontracting scandal left it on the brink of insolvency Billy Camden 3w Billy Camden 3w Politics Exclusive Exit interview: Why Robert Halfon quit ‘the best job in government’ Halfon tells FE Week he ‘did all he could’ after leaving skills minister role Shane Chowen 4w Shane Chowen 4w Apprenticeships National apprenticeship achievement rate rises to 54% Slight increase leaves sector way off government target Billy Camden 1mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 1mo Next 3 stories Apprenticeships Exclusive Apprenticeship growth pilot cash would reach just 15 ITPs Providers need to start at least 15 apprentices on the chosen standards to be eligible for extra funding Shane Chowen 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo Apprenticeships Exclusive Treasury announces £3k top-up for 13 ‘growth sector’ apprenticeships Training providers will have to deliver a minimum number of starts to access the cash Shane Chowen 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive DfE set to surrender £60m apprenticeship cash in 2023-24 Just 2% of total ring-fenced budget expected to be handed back to Treasury Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo
