Training Providers

Skills Training UK on brink of insolvency

More than two hundred jobs are at risk if insolvency goes ahead

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Awarding

Leaders sound alarm as 2024 exam entry fees soar by up to 16.5%

Biggest exam board increases prices of some of its most popular qualifications far higher than inflation

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
EDI

Keegan wants ‘extreme caution’ from colleges after trans advice delayed

Education secretary claimed trans guidance delay was to ‘allow more time’ to speak with teachers, parents and lawyers

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Ofsted

Oliver vows to ‘work with whole sector’ to ‘create best’ Ofsted

Sir Martyn Oliver will appear before MPs in September after being confirmed as DfE’s pick for Ofsted chief

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Ofsted, Qualifications, Skills reform, T Levels

Students ‘misled’ and teachers struggling: Ofsted’s verdict on T Levels

Watchdog calls for rethink of controversial plans to axe BTECs amid ‘teething issues’ with replacements

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Qualifications, T Levels

DfE renames struggling T Level transition programme

Officials think the name change will improve progression to T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen


News

£50k minister pay-offs, and 6 more DfE accounts findings

£20m paid out in department staff shake-up, plus high needs deficits leave LAs facing ‘financial failure’

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Colleges

Council launches investigation into college amid ‘serious allegations’

Three senior members ‘away from workplace’ pending probe into City College Peterborough

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

John McNamara returns as Federation of Awarding Bodies interim CEO

He will lead the membership body until Tom Bewick’s permanent successor is found

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Pepe Di’Iasio nominated to succeed Barton as ASCL general secretary

Headteacher and former president is executive’s pick, but members will have chance to challenge him

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

12 ESFA staff get £50k+ exit packages amid restructure

Annual accounts of funding agency also reveal how one college merger cost the taxpayer over £2m

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Jack Dyson
Apprenticeships, Ofsted

Roaring success for Derby apprenticeship provider in first inspection

Blue Lion Training Academy rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel

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