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Politics

DfE monitors staff after edict to return to the office

WiFi is being used to track attendance

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Higher education

Universities told to advertise drop-out rates

Universities have been asked to advertise drop-out and employment rates so, in the minister’s words, applicants avoid ‘dead end’…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
NEET

NEET 16: Out of work and training 16-year-olds at highest level in nearly a decade

Number of 16-year-olds not in education, employment or training highest since 2012

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships, Ofsted

Ofsted to hit England’s largest apprenticeship provider with grade 3

Quality concerns found at Lifetime Training, which delivers to big-name employers and the civil service

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships, Higher education

New ‘method’ to quality assuring higher and degree-level apprenticeships launched

It is part of the second phase of reforms to how EQA works for end-point assessment

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


News

Keith Smith to leave DfE to become London college boss

He has been a top skills civil servant for a decade

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

AELP in talks to return as co-owners of ETF

It has been four years since all ties were cut

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, Industrial action

Staff now plan to strike during first week of September over ‘fire and rehire’ row at London college

14 consecutive days of industrial action have been announced

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Burghart sets ‘ambitious’ apprentice achievement rate target and announces feedback tool drop-outs

But AELP chief fears the target will be unachievable

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
AEB

Less generous adult education clawback threshold offered in most devolved areas

The Education and Skills Funding Agency’s threshold for funding adult education courses that are not delivered is more generous…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, Exams

Colleges fork out for taxis and b&bs to get students to exams during rail strikes

Students resorted to sleepovers and parents took days off work to get their children to college on time

Jason Noble
Jason Noble

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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
Colleges, FE Commissioner

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel