Colleges Tributes paid to ‘brilliant figurehead’ college principal Viv Gillespie Former principal at four colleges died on Friday after a short illness Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Adult education Skills bootcamps: Study finds ‘inappropriate’ interviews and already-skilled workers on courses Research of wave 2 bootcamps finds more than half of learners already have level 4 or above qualifications Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Sponsored post Sponsored Five ways to take your teaching career to the next level with Advanced Teacher Status How have ATS alumni benefitted from taking part in the programme? FE Week Reporter 3y Society for Education and Training 3y Skills reform Do we need LEPs after all? Local enterprise partnerships explain what may be lost on the local skills front if LEPs are defunded Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Ofsted Ofsted reports discomfort at ‘blurred boundaries’ between UTC learners and staff Inspectors drop ‘outstanding’ UTC Reading to ‘inadequate’ in new report Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y News Exclusive Ministers lift ban on skills bootcamps for Restart participants DfE and DWP confirm Restart participants can do skills bootcamps from April Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Skills reform Students ‘disempowered’ as ministers dig in over BTEC defunding Letter from skills minister to college chiefs confirms no delay of defunding timeline Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Apprenticeships, Skills reform DfE scraps apprentice cap for small businesses Skills Minister Robert Halfon says small businesses can recruit as many apprentices as they need from April Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Ofsted Nottingham provider ‘taken by surprise’ over Ofsted ‘inadequate’ report Provider says Ofsted’s report ‘doesn’t reflect feedback’ on site Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Apprenticeships Apprenticeship achievements drop leaves most providers in scope for intervention Over half of training providers “need improvement” or “at risk” as overall achievement rates fall Shane Chowen 3y Shane Chowen 3y Colleges, FE workforce Low pay and high turnover of college teachers uncovered New findings from the Institute for Fiscal Studies lifts the lid on just how bad teacher pay and turnover… Shane Chowen 3y Shane Chowen 3y Ofsted Catholic sixth form college retains ‘outstanding’ after 14-year Ofsted respite ‘The outcome is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our wonderful staff, students and wider community’ Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Newer 1 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 848 Older Must read Colleges, Long read Investigation Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,… Jessica Hill 2w Jessica Hill 2w Colleges, Long read Exclusive Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo Young people Long read Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals Anviksha Patel 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo Next 3 stories News Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the… Shane Chowen 4mo Shane Chowen 4mo Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 4mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 4mo News Exclusive 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 5mo Shane Chowen 5mo
