Training Providers

LifeSkills goes into administration after DfE finds ‘data irregularities’

Almost 500 students and 80 staff impacted

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Awarding

‘Difficult to swallow’: Leaders criticise exam fee hikes of up to 17%

Exam boards will earn several million pounds more from schools and colleges – but say they have to cover…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Qualifications, Skills reform

Revealed: 1 in 3 at risk BTECs saved from the chop

DfE publishes ‘final’ list of level 3 quals that overlap with first ten T Levels

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

OfS touts tough registration rules on sexual harassment

HE regulator plans to consult on a new condition of registration early next year

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Colleges

Third college to go through FE insolvency regime owes £8m

The country’s smallest sixth form college has been forced to close

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

DfE forced to finally reveal true amount of apprenticeship funding returned to Treasury

Over £2bn surrendered since the launch of the levy in 2017 to 2021

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


Apprenticeships

Apprenticeship starts for young people grow the most in full-year 2021/22 figures

But overall starts are still 11% down on pre-pandemic levels

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Results 2022

BTEC and CTEC result delays scrutinised by MPs: 6 things we learned

Officials grilled on scale of the delays, the impact on learners and the action being taken to ensure the…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Ofqual, T Levels

T Level exams issues could be more widespread than first thought, Ofqual reveals

Ofqual raises concerns over core papers in education and childcare T Level as well as health and science

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Staff

NEU will ballot sixth form college teachers as 85% back strike

‘In the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, [they] are not prepared to see their income fall further’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Apprenticeships, Ofsted, Training Providers

Provider censured after sexual harassment reports from construction apprentices

Prime failed to oversee safeguarding at subcontractor

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
WorldSkills

WorldSkills 2022: Team UK win bronze in Industry 4.0

The first finals of this year’s WorldSkills competition have taken place – and the UK is already on the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen

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