Apprenticeships

‘Gamechanger’: UCAS to begin advertising apprenticeships

DfE confirms students will be able to search and apply for apprenticeship vacancies on UCAS site from 2024

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Ofsted, sixth forms

Sussex sixth form college retains ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating 10 years after last visit

Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College gets top Ofsted rating in all areas

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
WorldSkills

WorldSkills UK names squad for Lyon 2024

Young competitors in skills areas from beauty therapy to cyber security are one step closer to representing the UK…

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Sponsored post

CPD drives students’ skills and aspirations in college and at work

Does CPD really lead to benefits on the ‘front line’? The worlds of education and business are evolving. Educators…

WorldSkills UK
WorldSkills UK
Sponsored post

Futureproof Your Provision with Mindful Education

Many further education colleges are facing difficulties in maintaining and growing income in the face of unprecedented challenges for…

Mindful Education
Mindful Education
Apprenticeships, Long read, Skills bootcamps

How HGV bootcamps helped to ease a skills crisis

FE Week looks at whether the HGV driver crisis remains and what the impact has been on apprenticeships

Jason Noble
Jason Noble


Adult education, Funding

Adult education procurement launches with ‘more robust’ contract management

Procurement has launched for adult education budget and free courses for jobs provision in non-devolved areas for 2023/24

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Adult education

West Yorkshire’s 10% boost for adult education

West Yorkshire Combined Authority follows Greater London and West Midlands for inflation-matching AEB rise

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships, Training Providers

Defence giant Babcock offloads part of its training business

New training provider Inspiro has launched following the sale of Babcock’s ‘non-core’ training business and closure of its assessment…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges

Another bailout for troubled college with merger in sight

But the college has been stung by a £500k AEB clawback

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

DfE’s website rejects apprenticeship adverts for using ‘head’ and ‘man’

Officials are ‘urgently’ investigating the vacancies site

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships, Colleges, Subcontracting

College fails to file accounts for fourth year

Union raises transparency concerns and calls on leaders to open up the books

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

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
T Levels

NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure

Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education, ITPs

Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers

Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps

Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps

Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Frances Read
Apprenticeships

Entrepreneur chased for millions after apprenticeship collapse

ESFA uncovers ‘fake’ taxi apprentices as liquidator reveals intercompany payments days after firm decided to shut

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets

Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen