Apprenticeships

Labour think tank’s radical plan to tackle apprenticeship levy’s ‘abject failure’

Give SMEs ’skin in the game’ by making more employers pay the charge, ban graduates, end the Treasury top-slice…

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Ofsted

Child’s play: Early years apprenticeship provider gets top Ofsted marks

Daycare training provider rewarded for high level of distinctions for apprentices

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Skills reform

First ‘technical excellence colleges’ named in £100m construction skills drive

Colleges in every region of England will lead new hubs to train 40,000 workers by 2029

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
EuroSkills 2025

Learning for Herning: Inside the Team UK bootcamp teaching mind over medal

WorldSkills UK competitors polish their skills, stamina and focus ahead of September’s European skills championships in Denmark

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Ofqual

Awarding body fined £15k for ‘serious’ conflict of interest failures

The company shared an office and staff with one of its test centres

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships

NHS to save level 7 apprenticeships from funding axe

‘Mitigation fund’ launched for five health and social care professions

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor


Skills bootcamps

Fake employer used for ‘fraudulent’ skills bootcamp cash claims

Police investigating while firm that secured £22m contracts sues DfE

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Devolution

Mayor’s money to heat up FE ‘cold spots’

Capital funding dished out to providers to target towns with a training provision ‘deficit’

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Ofsted

Ofsted sounds siren over ambulance provider’s apprenticeships

Apprentices aren’t supported with learning after their initial training, inspectors find at north east firm

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Prison education

Existing providers win £1.5bn prison education ‘overhaul’

Critics warn the system will continue to fail unless more drastic action is taken

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Apprenticeships

CareShield exits apprenticeships to protect learners from staff shortages 

Sector-wide challenges made it ‘increasingly difficult’ to deliver high-quality training, provider’s leaders say

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Ofsted

Ofsted: Young people ‘at risk’ at G4S-run secure training centre

Sir Martyn Oliver invokes rare ‘urgent notification’ after finding systemic safeguarding failures at Oakhill STC

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel

Must read

16-19

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
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