Apprenticeships

Multi-million-pound donation to fund apprentice wages in ‘radical approach’ to heritage skills

The fund will cover training in the heritage sector for up to 2,700 people

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Students

Free meals funding ‘another real-terms cut to bear’

Free meals funding increase still falls short of rising food costs

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Ofsted

All childcare apprentices dropped out at ‘inadequate’ training provider

Some learners at the provider were also left without supervisors while at work, according to Ofsted

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Apprenticeships, Ofsted

Care leadership training provider hit with ‘inadequate’ rating

Inspectors report ‘systemic weaknesses’ at the provider, and that it had not acted on comments made in previous Ofsted…

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Skills reform

Government confirms end to LEP funding

The government had touted the change in this year’s Spring Budget

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Apprenticeships

Discrimination? Providers slam apprenticeship visa rule change

DfE ‘clarifies’ that if an individual is ‘unable to complete the apprenticeship in the time they have available, (e.g.,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


Colleges

College set for ‘inevitable’ court battle with football club after mediation falls flat

The football club is suing the college for more than £160,000

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Colleges

College group wins High Court battle to sell closed campus

The college had faced substantial opposition from the local council, campaigners and the local MP, Harriet Baldwin

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Colleges

Long-awaited three-college Hampshire merger gets over the line

Future of City College Southampton secured as it joins Fareham and Eastleigh College

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Training Providers

BCTG changes owner and ‘removes’ CEO after Ofsted battering

Provider slammed for ‘lack of focus’ on quality following switch from subcontracting to direct delivery

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Top apprenticeships civil servant to retire

Kate Ridley-Moy will succeed Peter Mucklow as director of apprenticeships

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Awarding

Teenager arrested in exam board cyber attack investigation

Police confirm 16-year-old boy has been arrested and bailed until later this year

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth

Must read

16-19

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE

A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
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