Apprenticeships, T Levels Small business chiefs make fresh calls for apprenticeship and T Level cash incentives return One in five small businesses would take on an apprentice with the cash boost, FSB says Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Skills reform Revealed: 37 business groups chosen to lead local skills plans Leading employer groups across England will write local skills improvement plans which detail how provision should change to meet… Shane Chowen 3y Shane Chowen 3y The Future of Assessment 1/09/2022 Find out more Ofsted Ofsted ditches Covid disruption deferral policy The inspection code of conduct has also been strengthened Samantha Booth 3y Samantha Booth and Tom Belger 3y Ofsted SEND college judged ‘inadequate’ over safety concerns Staffing issues and gaps in SEND experience highlighted by watchdog Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Apprenticeships, Higher education Revealed: First solely apprenticeship provider granted degree awarding powers Euan Blair’s Multiverse can now run and award its own degree level apprenticeships Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Exams Pearson faces record £1.3m fine for letting examiners remark own work ‘No evidence’ students received the wrong outcomes but schools and colleges awarded £300k compensation Samantha Booth 3y Samantha Booth 3y News Provider plans to quickly double apprentice numbers after securing ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating MBKB Ltd secures top rating just six years after first offering apprenticeships. Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Colleges Hull College names National Leader of Governance and former newspaper editor as new chair Rob Lawson will succeed Lesley Davies Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Devolution East Midlands area secures adult education budget powers in first of a kind county devolution deal Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire secure adult education budget responsibilities as first mayoral combined county authority. Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Awarding, Higher education Access to HE awarding body files for insolvency It comes weeks after the organisation split from the NOCN Group Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y GCSEs, Results 2022 GCSE results 2022: Maths and English resits pass rate takes big drop Pass rate also takes a slight dip on pre-pandemic levels Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Newer 1 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 812 Older Must read 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 4d Jessica Hill 4d Long read, Prison education Long read 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 4w Jessica Hill 4w Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe Anviksha Patel 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
