News

Limb to chair relaunched Lifelong Education Institute

The current chair, former minister Chris Skidmore MP, is standing down at the end of the month to focus…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics

Keegan snubs ASCL conference as schools pay stalemate continues

Education secretary will miss the Birmingham event because she hopes to be in school pay talks, union reveals

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Apprenticeships

Second chance for firms that failed to join flexi-job apprenticeship register

DfE confirms new sustainabilit6y assessment will be used to re-assess failed bids in last application window

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
News

Taxpayers’ £10m hit over ‘careers queen’s’ bust empire

ESFA funds cannot be recovered, say liquidators

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships, Ofsted

‘Stunned’ businessman vows to walk away from FE after ‘inadequate’ verdict

‘The sector is run as an autocracy’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Ofqual

Sign language learners affected as ‘ground-breaking’ awarding body to close

Up to 150 learners could be affected by closure of Institute for British Sign Language at the end of…

Jason Noble
Jason Noble


SEND

SEND improvement plan ‘offers no solutions’ to post-16 problems

Government finally sets out its next steps for SEND review launched over three years ago

Shane Chowen
Samantha Booth and Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, Politics

Double tax on employers to boost training, says former education minister

Lord Jo Johnson said a reformed apprenticeships and skills levy was “the only game in town” to increase spending…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges

‘Innovative’ colleges honoured in 2022/23 AoC Beacon Awards

Ten colleges scoop awards at Association of Colleges event

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Colleges

DfE’s college loans scheme won’t be ready until summer

Further details including eligibility criteria to be announced in April

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Adult education

‘Significant’ in-year cash boost to national adult education budget funding

ESFA to apply 2.2% increase across the board and a 20% uplift in 6 subjects

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Principals call for 12-month delay to ‘reckless’ plan to defund most BTECs

Heads warn education secretary the timeline is ‘not credible’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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