Apprenticeships, Politics Perkins pledges additional spending on SME apprenticeships Labour’s plan to replace the apprenticeship levy won’t reduce SME apprenticeships, the shadow minister said Shane Chowen 2y Shane Chowen 2y Devolution, Long read Skills and training: the centrepiece of Brabin’s northern project The mayor claims to have used her adult education budget to target areas where change was needed most, but… Jessica Hill 2y Jessica Hill 2y News Capita loses out on £233m Teachers’ Pension Scheme contract to Indian IT firm Outsourcing firm has run the pension scheme for 27 years, but also recently pulled out of teacher training contract Amy Walker 2y Amy Walker 2y Politics Exclusive College principal to succeed Birbalsingh as social mobility chair Alun Francis has been filling in as interim chair since ‘country’s strictest headteacher’ resigned in January FE Week Reporter 2y FE Week Reporter 2y Apprenticeships Exceptional funding review: Care apprenticeships boosted by a third Care apprenticeships will receive larger than expected funding increases Shane Chowen 2y Shane Chowen 2y Training Providers AELP chief Jane Hickie to stand down The training body boss will officially leave at the end of this week Shane Chowen 2y Shane Chowen 2y Staff Judge upholds 71-year-old teacher’s Covid complaints The teacher argued that she had been subjected to indirect age discrimination Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Training Providers ‘Inadequate’ provider stops trading with almost £1m in unpaid bills Adult care provider likely won’t be able to pay back any debts Anviksha Patel 2y Anviksha Patel 2y Apprenticeships, Ofsted Ofsted slams apprenticeship provider for training ‘more akin to CPD’ Inspectors said apprentices already had experience of the sector so shouldn’t be eligible for apprenticeship funding Joshua Stein 2y Joshua Stein 2y Training Providers Exclusive PeoplePlus walks away from AEB delivery Three years ago PeoplePlus held the largest national AEB contract among all independent training providers Joshua Stein 2y Joshua Stein 2y Colleges, Governance Exclusive Unpresidented: College in ‘crisis’ over best-paid CEO’s new role Governance concerns as accusations of nepotism also come to light Anviksha Patel 2y Anviksha Patel 2y Apprenticeships Exclusive Level 2 apprenticeship spending down by £200m since the levy Spending figures for all levels revealed for the first time Billy Camden 2y Billy Camden 2y Newer 1 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 829 Older Must read Qualifications Exclusive 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 1w Shane Chowen 1w Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Colleges, Long read 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo Long read, Prison education Long read 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 5mo Billy Camden 5mo