AAC2022, Apprenticeships

Revealed: AAC Apprenticeship Awards 2022 winners

From a record number of entries, the countries best apprenticeship training providers and employers have been unveiled at the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
News

College students stage mass walk out over ‘stop and search’ knife crime security checks

Students who spoke to FE Week said they feel “violated” by the security measures

Will Nott
Will Nott
Sponsored post

New Challenges need New Skills

COP26 is receding in the rear-view mirror. Two weeks of high-level talks between world leaders has resulted in statements…

Pearson
Pearson
Prison education

Inspectors find ‘enormous and enduring’ failures in prison education

Education and prisons inspectors joined forces to criticise the quality of reading education for prisoners and the found most…

Will Nott
Will Nott
AAC2022, Apprenticeships

Low apprenticeship achievement rates will not impact Ofsted grades, chief inspector promises

‘Our framework does not require inspectors to use achievement rates to make a judgement’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
FE Week Podcast

The FE Week Podcast: Is disability the hidden diversity issue?

In this episode, education journalist Jess Staufenberg explores disability – or differing ability – and what it means as…

Jess Staufenberg
The FE Week Podcast


AAC2022, Apprenticeships

DfE ‘will not be satisfied’ with upcoming apprenticeship achievement rates, top civil servant warns

Peter Mucklow has hinted there will be a big drop in national achievement rates this year

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
AAC2022, Apprenticeships

‘We need you’: Highlights from the skills minister’s opening speech at AAC 2022

Alex Burghart commits to increasing starts for young people and reducing burden for SMEs

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Sponsored post

Introducing SQA Advanced Qualifications

SQA’s Advanced Qualifications are internationally recognised higher education qualifications at certificate and diploma level (levels 4 and 5).

SQA
SQA
Apprenticeships

Employer groups call on Sunak to reform levy funds in his spring statement

Many levy-paying businesses have found it challenging to use for their training needs

Will Nott
Will Nott
Colleges

Activate Learning and Lincoln College Group drop merger plans

‘I think what we felt with where we are at the moment, given those [previous] mergers, our group services…

Will Nott
Will Nott
Colleges

Conflicting principal views on Eton’s elite sixth form plans

The colleges will be designed to give disadvantaged young people who “have done well in their GCSEs the opportunity…

Will Nott
Will Nott

Must read

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
Adult education, ITPs

Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers

Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps

Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps

Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Frances Read
Apprenticeships

Entrepreneur chased for millions after apprenticeship collapse

ESFA uncovers ‘fake’ taxi apprentices as liquidator reveals intercompany payments days after firm decided to shut

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets

Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen