News Revealed: The 2022 Pearson Teaching Awards winners Sixteen winners from across UK schools and colleges recognised Freddie Whittaker 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y WorldSkills REVEALED: WorldSkills UK’s 2022 national finals results UK’s best vocational and technical skills talent chosen in WorldSkills UK national finals Tallulah Taylor 3y Tallulah Taylor 3y WorldSkills UK national finals 2022 supplement 25/11/2022 Find out more btec awards Winners of 2022 BTEC Awards revealed Inspiring students, teachers, colleges and schools from across the country have been honoured in Pearson’s 2022 BTEC awards. Twenty… Tallulah Taylor 3y Tallulah Taylor 3y Apprenticeships Exclusive Lifetime Training taken over by ‘lenders’ amid ESFA investigation England’s largest apprenticeship provider could be hit with £13.7m clawback Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Apprenticeships Over 40 organisations removed from apprentice assessment register Ofqual involvement in applications process bolsters regulation of end point assessment Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Colleges, Ofsted, sixth forms Sixth form and FE college quality hits new high 100 per cent of sixth form colleges have ‘outstanding’ or ‘good’ ratings Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Levelling Up, sixth forms Step aside Eton: New trust joins ‘elite’ sixth form race Bradford-based trust eyes STEM sixth form for girls Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y News Temporary apprenticeship funding uplifts delayed DfE now set to provider ‘further information’ in December Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Ofsted Ofsted to hit university-run college with grade 4 The college was taken over by a university last year after a turbulent period Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Awarding NCFE acquires health and leisure awarding organisation Active IQ has been bought by NCFE but will continue to operate as a distinct brand Shane Chowen 3y Shane Chowen 3y AEB, Apprenticeships, Skills reform, Traineeships 8 interesting things we learned from today’s FE data drop Traineeships and public sector apprenticeship target flops among the findings Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 3y Newer 1 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 816 Older 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 4w Jessica Hill 4w Long read, Prison education Long read 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo