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
Training Providers

Over 100 jobs lost as Go Train files for liquidation

The training provider has ceased trading immediately, ending 30 years of business in the adult education sector

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen and Billy Camden
Colleges

Redundancy risk as former national college consults on its future

NCATI, formerly the National College for High Speed Rail, has been struggling to recruit the apprenticeships needed to sustain…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges, Ofsted

Residential college stops use of ‘intrusive’ body cameras

Ofsted rating for residential provision drops from ‘outstanding’ to ‘requires improvement’ at Hartpury College

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
UTCs

‘Disappointment’ at 13th UTC closure

‘Good’ rated Watford college will shut at the end of the academic year due to low student demand

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships

Halfon: No need for apprenticeship levy controls despite budget squeeze

Minister also takes aim at business groups and national media peddling fake news about ‘wasted’ levy funding

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