Apprenticeships

End point assessment data will finally be public, watchdog says

Ofqual will release end point assessment outcome data for the first time later this year

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics

Pension reform benefits wealthy bosses as FE overlooked (again)

Sector leaders have expressed their disappointment that big FE funding issues, like teacher pay, were overlooked in the budget

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Ofsted

Labour’s Ofsted plans ‘logical evolution’, says Spielman

‘It is completely rational for a potential alternative government to be thinking about things like this’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Freddie Whittaker
T Levels

Single awarding body model for T Levels to stay

Ministers have discussed the future of the contentious model

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Hunt’s ‘returnerships’ are just marketing, DfE admits

The announcement is ‘all spin and no substance’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Awarding

Ofqual’s new deadlines to avoid repeat of BTEC results delays debacle

Regulator sets three deadlines before August results day for awarding bodies to abide by

Jason Noble
Jason Noble


Colleges

York College closed after suspicious object investigation

College confirms closure today is a precaution with activities as normal from Friday

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Colleges, Ofsted

Nottinghamshire SEND college celebrates top Ofsted marks

Portland College labelled ‘highly inclusive and supportive’ by Ofsted in ‘outstanding’ report

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Skills reform

Trailblazer devolution deals focus on careers, bootcamps and free courses for jobs

Mayors for Greater Manchester and West Midlands buoyed by trailblazer devolution deal despite limited skills developments

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Politics

Budget 2023: What the chancellor announced for FE and skills

‘Returnerships’ confirmed, but no new major investment

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

AAC Apprenticeship Awards winners 2023 revealed

Twenty winners recognised for exceptional work in training apprentices

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Ofsted

Ofsted wants experienced school leader to take over from Spielman

Job advert for the £165k role states it is an ‘important time’ to lead the watchdog and ’embed’ the…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker

Must read

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