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Apprenticeships, Long read, Skills bootcamps

How HGV bootcamps helped to ease a skills crisis

FE Week looks at whether the HGV driver crisis remains and what the impact has been on apprenticeships

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Adult education, Funding

Adult education procurement launches with ‘more robust’ contract management

Procurement has launched for adult education budget and free courses for jobs provision in non-devolved areas for 2023/24

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Adult education

West Yorkshire’s 10% boost for adult education

West Yorkshire Combined Authority follows Greater London and West Midlands for inflation-matching AEB rise

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships, Training Providers

Defence giant Babcock offloads part of its training business

New training provider Inspiro has launched following the sale of Babcock’s ‘non-core’ training business and closure of its assessment…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges

Another bailout for troubled college with merger in sight

But the college has been stung by a £500k AEB clawback

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


Apprenticeships

DfE’s website rejects apprenticeship adverts for using ‘head’ and ‘man’

Officials are ‘urgently’ investigating the vacancies site

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships, Colleges, Subcontracting

College fails to file accounts for fourth year

Union raises transparency concerns and calls on leaders to open up the books

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Ofsted

Ofsted suspends ‘independent’ scrutiny panels

Inspectorate accused of ‘marking its own work’

Billy Camden
Amy Walker and Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships

Care leaver apprentice bursary to triple to £3,000

DfE also pledges to support local authorities to recruit up to 500 new child and family social worker apprentices

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Colleges

Green light for religious sixth form colleges to academise

New regulations finally pave way for Catholic sixth form colleges to convert

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Higher education, Lifelong Learning

Lifelong loan laws laid in Parliament

Ministers will create a new system of credits and fee caps to regulate how much providers can charge for…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen

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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