Apprenticeships, Ofsted

Training giant with 5,000 learners pulls out of apprenticeship market

GP Strategies Training Ltd confirms closure of UK apprenticeship arm leaves 95 workers at risk of redundancy

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Colleges

Struggling college faces apprenticeships ban

Ofsted set to judge apprenticeship provision ‘inadequate’ in overall grade 3 report

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
AAC2023, Apprenticeships

Finalists for AAC Apprenticeship Awards 2023 revealed

A record number of entries were received across 19 award categories celebrating the very best of apprenticeship delivery

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Training Providers

Multiverse posts sixth consecutive financial loss

Multiverse is relying on investors while it spends on infrastructure, and says losses are ‘typical’ for venture-backed companies

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
14-16, Careers

Beefed up Baker clause comes into force

Schools must now provide students with at least six ‘encounters’ with FE providers

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

Ban on borrowing puts college capital projects ‘at risk’

New public sector rules ‘totally unclear’, say leaders

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


Politics

Sunak outlines maths to 18 ‘ambition’…but not before 2025

Labour says ‘reheated’ pledge is ’empty without more maths teachers’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Devolution

Expanded North East devolution deal to transfer AEB powers by 2024

North of Tyne Combined Authority will be replaced by new authority covering both sides of the Tyne

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
News

New year honours 2023: Who got what in FE and skills?

A former president of the AoC has been made a dame alongside five CBEs, six OBEs and seven MBEs…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
News, Opinion

2022 review: The stories that made the headlines this year

Exams blunders, ministerial roundabouts and financial fiascos: editor Shane Chowen rounds up 2022 and looks ahead at what’s to…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Adult education, Devolution

AEB funding rates to increase in West Midlands

Adult education budget funding will increase by 10 per cent in the West Midlands to help providers with rising…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Students

Barber to lead region’s social mobility taskforce

Government advisor and college and university chiefs are among members for new commission

Jason Noble
Jason Noble

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