News

Plan B guidance for 2023 exams confirmed

Schools and colleges sound workload warnings over contingency plans for next summer’s GCSEs and A-levels

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Apprenticeships, Ofsted

University that ramped up apprenticeships secures third ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating

More than 2,000 apprentices have been recruited in the past four years

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Colleges

College reclassification: Major changes you need to know about

Restrictions on senior pay and borrowing announced, plus bad news on VAT

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Colleges

Colleges return to public sector, ONS announces

The decision ends a decade of colleges’ private sector status and could come with a host of new controls…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
News

Government agency enters top 20 biggest apprenticeship providers

The prison and probation service has made it mandatory for all new prison officers to be apprentices

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Create new ‘national apprenticeship inspectorate’, says think tank

EDSK also calls for a minimum of 200 hours of off-the-job training to be face-to-face learning

Jason Noble
Jason Noble


SEND

What’s behind the spate of ‘inadequate’ SEND college inspection results?

There were 7 ‘inadequate’ inspections in 2021/22 compared to 4 between 2017 and 2021

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
News

Revealed: The 2022 Pearson Teaching Awards winners

Sixteen winners from across UK schools and colleges recognised

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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
Tallulah Taylor
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
Tallulah Taylor
Apprenticeships

Lifetime Training taken over by ‘lenders’ amid ESFA investigation

England’s largest apprenticeship provider could be hit with £13.7m clawback

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

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
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