News

Government agency enters top 20 biggest apprenticeship providers

The prison and probation service has made it mandatory for all new prison officers to be apprentices

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Create new ‘national apprenticeship inspectorate’, says think tank

EDSK also calls for a minimum of 200 hours of off-the-job training to be face-to-face learning

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
SEND

What’s behind the spate of ‘inadequate’ SEND college inspection results?

There were 7 ‘inadequate’ inspections in 2021/22 compared to 4 between 2017 and 2021

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
News

Revealed: The 2022 Pearson Teaching Awards winners

Sixteen winners from across UK schools and colleges recognised

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
WorldSkills

REVEALED: WorldSkills UK’s 2022 national finals results

UK’s best vocational and technical skills talent chosen in WorldSkills UK national finals

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor


News

Winners of 2022 BTEC Awards revealed

Inspiring students, teachers, colleges and schools from across the country have been honoured in Pearson’s 2022 BTEC awards. Twenty…

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Apprenticeships

Lifetime Training taken over by ‘lenders’ amid ESFA investigation

England’s largest apprenticeship provider could be hit with £13.7m clawback

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Over 40 organisations removed from apprentice assessment register

Ofqual involvement in applications process bolsters regulation of end point assessment

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Colleges, Ofsted, sixth forms

Sixth form and FE college quality hits new high

100 per cent of sixth form colleges have ‘outstanding’ or ‘good’ ratings

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Levelling Up, sixth forms

Step aside Eton: New trust joins ‘elite’ sixth form race

Bradford-based trust eyes STEM sixth form for girls

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
News

Temporary apprenticeship funding uplifts delayed

DfE now set to provider ‘further information’ in December

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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