Apprenticeships, Bootcamps, HGV, Skills reform

Large HGV training provider goes bust blaming inadequate funding

Over 100 staff and 2,000 learners, mostly on bootcamps, affected

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Funding, Skills reform

Autumn statement: silence on skills funding ‘criminal’

Jeremy Hunt announced billions for schools but no extra funding for further education or skills in his autumn statement…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, Politics

Autumn statement: Apprentice minimum wage to rise to £5.28 an hour

The 9.7% rise will take effect from April 2023

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Politics

Ex-minister Robin Walker elected as education committee chair 

The former schools minister received 228 votes from MPs after Robert Halfon returned to the Department for Education as…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
AoC, Colleges, Politics, Skills reform

Keegan: The 3 ‘gamechangers’ for FE

Education secretary says local skills improvement plans ‘will work’, lauds IoTs and pleads for more teachers

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Politics

Phillipson: Labour can’t commit to increasing FE funding rates

Shadow education secretary says the economic situation needs to become clearer

Jason Noble
Jason Noble


Colleges

Colleges to retain reserves if reclassified

A review to decide if colleges are part of the public sector is due to report by the end…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges

Sixth form college teachers vote for strike action

Picket lines are planned from the end of November

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
UTCs

UTC chief eyes new institutions and wants ‘sleeves’ in schools

Baker Dearing Trust boss says things are looking up for the embattled colleges

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, Ukraine

‘I feel very protected’: how the UK’s colleges welcomed students from Ukraine

Colleges across the country have laid on more than just English language classes

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
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Pearson Btec
Pearson Btec
News

Dispute over closed college site goes to court

Legal battle raised in parliament by furious MP

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

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