Industrial action Strike votes open at 33 colleges Industrial ballots opened today and will close on July 15 Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Sponsored post Sponsored AELP National Conference 2022 – Book your place now! Taking place on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 June, the 2022 AELP National Conference will be held at the… AELP 3y AELP 3y Long read Long read Focus feature: Women principals leaving a legacy in FE This year numerous top female college principals are stepping down after giving their professional lives to the FE sector…. Jess Staufenberg 3y Jess Staufenberg 3y News DfE permanently scraps annual FE learner and employer satisfaction surveys The survey is usually taken by hundreds of thousands of students and has run for most of the past… Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Funding IFS: Spending on adult education and apprenticeships will be 25% below 2010 levels by 2025 Spending on adult education and apprenticeships fell by 38 per cent in real-terms between 2010–11 and 2020–21 Will Nott 3y Will Nott 3y News Warning as cyber criminals try to cash in on exam season The Joint Council for Qualifications warned exams officers about the email earlier this week. The body said a ‘small… FE Week Reporter 3y FE Week Reporter 3y T Levels No T Level achievement rates until wave 3 students complete But national-level results for T Levels will be published from the get-go, with the first set of outcomes set… Will Nott 3y Will Nott 3y News New alliance to offer fellowships for FE staff Colleges will have to be a member of both organisations and have ‘chartered status’ for staff to be eligible. Shane Chowen 3y Shane Chowen 3y Sponsored post Sponsored OCN London joins forces with the Met Police to help widen participation in the police service OCN London, a nationally recognised awarding organisation and Access Validation Agency (AVA), has developed a new Access to HE… OCN London 3y OCN London 3y News DfE seeks brokers to level up SME apprenticeships in the north Intermediaries told to also focus on boosting numbers of young apprentices Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Apprenticeships Apprenticeship funding at risk for slow progress drop-outs But providers are up in arms about the bureaucracy of the ‘impractical’ new rule Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y News ESFA appoints David Withey as next permanent chief executive He replaces Eileen Milner who resigned last year Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Newer 1 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 812 Older Must read 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 4d Jessica Hill 4d Long read, Prison education Long read 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 4w Jessica Hill 4w Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
