T Levels Huge T Level employer cash incentive underspend revealed Just £500k of £7m budget used in pilot Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y News Traineeships flop… AGAIN: Starts target missed by two thirds in 2021/22 Another huge underspend is likely to be handed back to Treasury Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Politics, Skills reform Keegan boasts old FE funding boost in message to education sector It comes a week after FE was ignored in the chancellor’s education cash splash Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y T Levels DfE launches £150m capital fund for wave five T Level providers The funding can help upgrade facilities and purchase specialist kit Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y News ‘Overstretched leaders’ fail to improve teaching at ‘inadequate’ specialist college The Michael Tippett College has been rated insufficient due to quality of teaching, leadership and the curriculum Tallulah Taylor 3y Tallulah Taylor 3y Colleges Central Bedfordshire College principal Ali Hadawi resigns College confirms vice-principal will step up to acting principal role Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y SEND, supported internships Just 1 in 4 SEND students in work a year after supported internship ends Providers say support must continue as learners move into paid work Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Colleges, FE Commissioner FE Commissioner warns of college solvency risk and the danger of reclassification Shelagh Legrave also reflects on the ‘positivity’ of her first year in post Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Apprenticeships, Bootcamps, HGV, Skills reform Exclusive Large HGV training provider goes bust blaming inadequate funding Over 100 staff and 2,000 learners, mostly on bootcamps, affected Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y 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 3y Shane Chowen 3y 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 3y Jason Noble 3y 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 3y Amy Walker 3y Newer 1 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 816 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
