Colleges

Quiche and karaoke: Colleges hail the King

FE students across England have been getting involved in coronation activities

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Ofqual, T Levels

Ofqual deletes key T Level results dates

Timeline of key dates for T Levels removed from Ofqual VTQ information hub

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Training Providers

HIT Training becomes employee-owned after share transfer

A new trust has been set up which now holds a majority share of the company on behalf of…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Sponsored post

Join us at the Skills and Education Group Conference 2023 – a highlight of the further education and skills calendar

After a successful 110-year anniversary event last year, the Skills and Education Group Conference takes place again on 23…

Skills and Education Group
Skills and Education Group
Colleges

Colleges lambast ‘disastrous’ changes to financial year

Finance leads hit out at plans to bring college financial year in line with the rest of the public…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, Higher education

Degree-level apprenticeship spending hit half a billion last year

Costly courses swallowed a fifth of DfE’s budget in 21/22

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


DfE

DfE’s £32m higher technical skills injection fund shrinks by a third

Department confirms £11m will remain in its central fund

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Adult education, Skills reform

Ministers clear lifelong learning loan laws in the Commons

Opposition MPs were unsuccessful in pushing for more oversight of lifelong learning loan regulations

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
News

Six ‘gold-standard’ green apprenticeships hand-picked to mark Coronation

One is yet to be approved for delivery

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Colleges, Staff

Struggling college to suffer 14 days of strikes after refusing ‘financially unviable’ pay demand

UCU members will walk out over six weeks during exam season over £1,160 pay offer

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Ofsted

HR firm judged ‘inadequate’ over unsafe recruitment practices

Absolute Works has challenged its ‘inadequate’ Ofsted rating

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
UTCs

DfE signs off on £1m UTC contract after termination notice

Expansion plans to continue at University Collegiate School despite warning notice

Jason Noble
Jason Noble

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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