Assessment, Results 2023

The Great 2023 Grade Deflation: 7 things you need to know

How the plunge back to pre-pandemic grades will impact students and university places this year

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

EEF names former Ofsted boss as new chair

EEF announces new chair to replace philanthropist Sir Peter Lampl, 12 years after he helped found charity

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

Legrave’s term as FE Commissioner extended

DfE’s chief college trouble-shooter will now serve until at least March 2024

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
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

Must read

Colleges, Long read

Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching

In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
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