Apprenticeships Lifetime Training’s grade 3 Ofsted report published Inspectors criticise focus on financial performance and starts over quality Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y AEB, Colleges Investigation: how colleges coped with the £61.4m AEB clawback Redundancies and merging classes among measures colleges have taken to mitigate clawback of adult education budget Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Sponsored post Sponsored The importance of joined-up data How integrated data can help colleges drive improvement Advanced 3y Advanced 3y Politics DfE monitors staff after edict to return to the office WiFi is being used to track attendance Freddie Whittaker 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y Higher education Universities told to advertise drop-out rates Universities have been asked to advertise drop-out and employment rates so, in the minister’s words, applicants avoid ‘dead end’… Samantha Booth 3y Samantha Booth 3y NEET NEET 16: Out of work and training 16-year-olds at highest level in nearly a decade Number of 16-year-olds not in education, employment or training highest since 2012 Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Apprenticeships, Ofsted Ofsted to hit England’s largest apprenticeship provider with grade 3 Quality concerns found at Lifetime Training, which delivers to big-name employers and the civil service Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Apprenticeships, Higher education New ‘method’ to quality assuring higher and degree-level apprenticeships launched It is part of the second phase of reforms to how EQA works for end-point assessment Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y News Keith Smith to leave DfE to become London college boss He has been a top skills civil servant for a decade Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y News AELP in talks to return as co-owners of ETF It has been four years since all ties were cut Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Colleges, Industrial action Staff now plan to strike during first week of September over ‘fire and rehire’ row at London college 14 consecutive days of industrial action have been announced Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Apprenticeships Burghart sets ‘ambitious’ apprentice achievement rate target and announces feedback tool drop-outs But AELP chief fears the target will be unachievable Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Newer 1 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 803 Older Must read 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 2w Anviksha Patel 2w 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 4w Anviksha Patel 4w Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 1mo Josh Mellor 1mo Next 3 stories Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps Exclusive Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden and Frances Read 2mo Apprenticeships Entrepreneur chased for millions after apprenticeship collapse ESFA uncovers ‘fake’ taxi apprentices as liquidator reveals intercompany payments days after firm decided to shut Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Adult education Exclusive Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo
