Skills reform

FE financial risks “de-escalated” says DfE

Annual report and accounts says FE financial risks are still monitored however

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Skills reform

New ‘simpler’ skills funding model delayed

Changes to skills funding for adults and a new set of community learning objectives have been put back to…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, Skills reform

IfATE unveils plans to integrate professional qualifications with EPAs

A 10-week consultation on proposals has been launched

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Sponsored post

Apprenticeships: The ticket to your dream career

VTCT’s Business Development Manager for Apprenticeships, Jody Jones, tells you all you need to know about being an Apprentice

VTCT
VTCT
Results 2022

Pearson and OCR reports explain 2022 VTQ results delays

Covid-19 adaptations and inexperienced exam officers were among the issues

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Ofqual, Results 2022

Summer results delays affected nearly 21,000 students, Ofqual review finds

Exams watchdog unveils five-point plan to avoid repeat of 2022 results delays

Jason Noble
Jason Noble


16-19

EPI warns of widening disadvantage gap for 16-19 learners

Report prompts renewed calls for 16-19 pupil premium equivalent

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Awarding

AQA takes over vocational awarding body TQUK

Acquiring Training Qualifications UK will be a boost to AQA in the vocational awarding and apprenticeship end point…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, Colleges, skills

Public Accounts Committee warns skills system is ‘failing to deliver’

Committee recommends review of apprenticeship levy among its findings

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships, T Levels, Traineeships

Five findings from Halfon’s education committee appearance

Traineeships and T Levels were among the topics of discussion

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Ofsted

Ofsted annual report: Staff shortages hampering quality

Here’s what we learned from the latest Ofsted annual report, covering the first year of inspections since the pandemic

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges

Subcontracting and ‘too comfortable’ governors top FE Commissioner concerns for colleges

The FE Commissioner has also claimed some T Level courses have been withdrawn because colleges haven’t been able to…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen

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