Adult education, Training Providers

National AEB tender winners 2023 revealed

55 training providers awarded share of £75m pot

Shane Chowen
Anviksha Patel and Shane Chowen
Training Providers

Lifetime Training CEO next in line for the chop

Jon Graham to be replaced by turnaround specialist

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

Winners of the 2023 Festival of Learning awards announced

The awards honour and celebrate moving stories from learners, tutors, employers and providers

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
DfE, Qualifications

MPs blast DfE for refusing to pause BTEC cutback

Education select committee ‘disappointed’ with government response

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Colleges

MPs call for mandatory sex education in colleges 

Young college students are being left ‘under supported’ in RSHE as they approach adulthood, report claims

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Apprenticeships, Long read

A break with tradition: the crafts fighting for survival

The biggest losers in the government’s mission to boost apprenticeships are traditional crafts for whom the term “apprenticeship” was…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill


Colleges, Skills reform

AoC calls on next government to create ‘one tertiary system’

Association also wants apprenticeships for new job starters only and a pause to level 3 reforms

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Ofsted

Adult education giant returns to top Ofsted rating

Inspectors said City Lit fostered ‘exceptionally well-motivated’ students

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Students

Cost-of-living crisis driving up domestic abuse and criminal exploitation of college students

The number of ‘at risk’ college students is higher than ever, MPs have said

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Colleges

‘No doubt’ underfunding is impacting on learners

Ofsted deputy director reveals the recruitment crisis is impacting the quality of provision

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Adult education

National adult education procurement results delayed

ESFA’s adult education budget procurement outcomes have once again been delayed

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

Nearly 1 in 6 clinical training places to be offered as apprenticeships by 2028

NHS workforce plan commits to triple the number of apprentice nurses and boost medical degree apprenticeships

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