Apprenticeships

Students’ union to represent Jewish apprentices

Jewish apprentices can become full members of UJS

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges, Strikes

London mega-college staff cut short strike action over workload agreement

Workers meant to strike for eight days end up picketing for three days after talks

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Ofsted

Ofsted tightens inspection early warning alert loophole

Watchdog has ‘made changes to its processes around how, and when, inspectors gather documents from websites’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Apprenticeships

‘Ground-breaking’ prisoner apprenticeship scheme flops

DfE slammed for leaving prisons to figure out apprenticeships after changing the law

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
T Levels

T Level student fee hikes slammed by college leaders

New contracts can adapt entry fees to make sure awarding organisations make a profit

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges

College leaders demand £710 per student rise in sixth-formers’ funding

Increasing teaching hours in line with Advanced British Standard would need an extra £1,760 per sixth-former

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel


ITP, Teacher training

ITPs to take £27m hit from DfE funding change to FE teacher training

Only providers providers with an HE partnership will have access to student finance, DfE says

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education

Adult ed: Fewer adults taking level 2 and 3 courses

Figures indicate fewer adults from deprived backgrounds

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

Apprenticeship starts grow 7% in first quarter of 2023/24

Achievements were up 22% on the year before

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Ofsted

Leeds City Council awarded top Ofsted grade for adult learning and apprenticeships

The council received an inspection upgrade for its skills provision that ‘transforms lives’

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
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Colleges, Long read

Resilient Ricketts: How Brooklands was saved from going broke

The story of a college’s fight for survival after a subcontracting scandal left it on the brink of insolvency

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Politics

Exit interview: Why Robert Halfon quit ‘the best job in government’

Halfon tells FE Week he ‘did all he could’ after leaving skills minister role

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

National apprenticeship achievement rate rises to 54%

Slight increase leaves sector way off government target

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

Apprenticeship growth pilot cash would reach just 15 ITPs

Providers need to start at least 15 apprentices on the chosen standards to be eligible for extra funding

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

Treasury announces £3k top-up for 13 ‘growth sector’ apprenticeships

Training providers will have to deliver a minimum number of starts to access the cash

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, Politics

DfE set to surrender £60m apprenticeship cash in 2023-24

Just 2% of total ring-fenced budget expected to be handed back to Treasury

Billy Camden
Billy Camden