Adult education

Skills bootcamps: Study finds ‘inappropriate’ interviews and already-skilled workers on courses

Research of wave 2 bootcamps finds more than half of learners already have level 4 or above qualifications

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
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Five ways to take your teaching career to the next level with Advanced Teacher Status

How have ATS alumni benefitted from taking part in the programme?

FE Week Reporter
Society for Education and Training
Skills reform

Do we need LEPs after all?

Local enterprise partnerships explain what may be lost on the local skills front if LEPs are defunded

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Ofsted, UTCs

Ofsted reports discomfort at ‘blurred boundaries’ between UTC learners and staff

Inspectors drop ‘outstanding’ UTC Reading to ‘inadequate’ in new report

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
News

Ministers lift ban on skills bootcamps for Restart participants

DfE and DWP confirm Restart participants can do skills bootcamps from April

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Skills reform

Students ‘disempowered’ as ministers dig in over BTEC defunding

Letter from skills minister to college chiefs confirms no delay of defunding timeline

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


Apprenticeships, Skills reform

DfE scraps apprentice cap for small businesses

Skills Minister Robert Halfon says small businesses can recruit as many apprentices as they need from April

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Ofsted

Nottingham provider ‘taken by surprise’ over Ofsted ‘inadequate’ report

Provider says Ofsted’s report ‘doesn’t reflect feedback’ on site

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships

Apprenticeship achievements drop leaves most providers in scope for intervention

Over half of training providers “need improvement” or “at risk” as overall achievement rates fall

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges, Staff

Low pay and high turnover of college teachers uncovered

New findings from the Institute for Fiscal Studies lifts the lid on just how bad teacher pay and turnover…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Ofsted

Catholic sixth form college retains ‘outstanding’ after 14-year Ofsted respite

‘The outcome is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our wonderful staff, students and wider community’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Mental Health

College student suicide risk on the rise, ‘stark’ report reveals

AoC mental health survey finds 95 per cent of colleges reporting increase in mental health disclosures

Jason Noble
Jason Noble

Must read

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
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