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Adult education

Regional and social class divides in adult learning put ‘levelling up’ plans at risk, LWI warns

Gap widens for adult learning between highest and lowest performing regions in the UK

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
News

DfE reprimanded after student data used by gambling firms – but avoids £10m fine

ICO slams ‘woeful’ data protection practices

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Apprenticeships, Devolution

Liverpool City Region targets over 50s for apprenticeships

Combined authority says it could help those who have been made redundant, the unemployed and career changers

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
WorldSkills

UK hosts special WorldSkills competition this week

Competitors visit ex coal mine and Welsh villages ahead of competitions

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Ofsted

Ofsted faces another legal challenge over lack of Covid consideration

UKTD is the third provider recently to complain Ofsted hasn’t considered the impact of Covid.

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor


Training Providers

New ESFA chief plans financial handbook ‘bible’ for ITPs

ESFA’s new chief says he wants to improve partnership working between the agency and the sector

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
T Levels

‘Crushed’: 1 in 3 health and science T Level students turn their backs on flagship qualification

FE Week investigation unearths extent of the fallout from the ‘diabolical’ exams fiasco

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Politics

The ‘galling’ pay-offs for DfE ministers on political merry-go-round

19 politicians earn more than £100k in severance pay in a year

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

College troubleshooter resigns over PM race row

DfE national governance chief claims ‘I’m not racist’ and blames ‘wokerati’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Politics

Lord Blunkett backs away from Labour’s pledge to use 50% of apprenticeship levy on other training

Labour clarifies its 50% apprenticeship levy plans for other types of training is only an ‘indicative’ figure

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Training Providers

City & Guilds buys third training provider

Trade Skills 4U joins from private equity firm Palatine

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