Skills bootcamps

DfE exceeds 16k skills bootcamps starts target in 2021-22

But data on completions and gender won’t be released until next year

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education, Devolution

Norfolk and Suffolk obtain adult education budget powers in devolution deal

Deals for the counties are also expected to include involvement in skills

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
News

Revealed: 32 colleges bag £70m from HE capital fund

Allocations for improving higher education facilities range from £150k to £5.8m

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Six things we learned from Keegan’s first education committee

The education secretary took questions from MPs this morning

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Ofsted

Confirmed: College for vulnerable adults judged ‘inadequate’ over safety concerns

Ofsted says leaders are ‘unable to identify and protect learners who may be at risk or need help’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, Long read

Focus feature: Are college-led academy trusts the answer to the big education divide?

From classroom-to-career; the record of colleges sponsoring multi-academy trusts is a mixed one. Jessica Hill investigates if there is…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill


News

Speed read: DfE energy-saving tips and £500m funding rules

Colleges told to do energy ‘spot checks’, and have 2 years to spend cash

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Sustainability

£500m for schools and colleges to make buildings more energy efficient

Allocations range from £1.8m to £10k and colleges can decide to spend it on ‘other capital projects’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Colleges, Politics

Labour should bring colleges under local control, Gordon Brown suggests

Former PM proposes radical shake-up of government in new report for the party

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Prison education

Government steps up plans to improve prisoners’ literacy skills

Government launches reading app pilot and contract for literacy schemes

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Adult education

Pilot targeting UC claimants scales back target numbers

Industry leavers and Covid-19 disruption has hampered progress on health and care pilot

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
WorldSkills

WorldSkills: ‘Phenomenal’ performance puts UK back into top 10

WorldSkills 2022 special edition has concluded after six weeks of intense skill competitions taking place all over the world….

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen and Tallulah Taylor

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