T Levels

Providers shelve courses as students shun T Levels

Research also warns transition programme will not provide a flow of learners

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Inclusion

WorldSkills UK reveals 2023 equity, diversity and inclusion heroes

Winners included an apprentice who developed a financial literacy course for her community while also promoting apprenticeships in local…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges

Colleges ask for extra £400m as ‘perfect financial storm’ hits

AoC warns of large-scale redundancies, increased class sizes, and campus closures

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

Half of colleges report increase in hungry students

Survey finds student mental health, college funding, staff pay and energy bills are among top concerns

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Higher education, sexual misconduct

OfS proposes register of ‘personal relationships’ between staff and students

Non-disclosure agreements also face ban in cases of harassment and sexual misconduct

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Apprenticeships

DfE ‘developing’ teaching apprenticeship for non-graduates

Ministers also ‘reviewing’ their existing postgraduate route ‘with a view to making it more effective’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Colleges, Industrial action, Pay

Two days of strikes announced at Havant and South Downs College

Staff from two unions will be on the picket line after ‘insulting’ pay offer

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Politics

Former top DfE skills civil servant joins PwC

Paul Kett joins accounting giant after serving 6 years in the civil service

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Teaching

‘Expert’ teacher sweeteners needed to tackle ‘growing’ FE recruitment crisis, report says

Study calls on government to bolster incentives for employers to release staff to teach in FE too

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
News

UTCs group seeks millions from DfE for ‘sleeves’ in schools

Interested schools may also have to subsidise running costs of the mini-UTCs in future years

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
News

Marples family to sue DfE for over £37m

Founder of 3aaa seeks damages for aborted sale in 2016

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

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
Colleges, FE Commissioner

Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal

Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
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