Politics

Andrea Jenkyns re-appointed education minister

It is unclear whether she will retain her current skills, further and higher education brief

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Prison education, Staff

Prisons face educators’ strike action over low pay

Their union claims prison educators have seen their pay fall by 25% since 2009

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Results 2022, T Levels

Health and science T Level results WILL be regraded after watchdog finds ‘serious’ issues

A review by Ofqual found a catalogue of errors in the first year core exams

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Politics

Kelly Tolhurst appointed education minister

Liz Truss’s reshuffle continues, with junior portfolios yet to be confirmed

John Dickens
John Dickens
Colleges

Colleges call for aid as four-fold energy price hikes threaten solvency

Scores of colleges have outlined solvency fears unless soaring energy costs are tackled

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Politics

Kit Malthouse: 12 facts about the new education secretary

Meet the man who has replaced James Cleverly in Liz Truss’s first cabinet

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Politics

Kit Malthouse appointed education secretary

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster moves to education secretary role under Liz Truss

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships, Ofsted

Contracts risk for provider after Ofsted finds ‘students’ who never studied with the firm

Ofsted inspectors also found apprentices without jobs at the firm

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Colleges

Corrienne Peasgood announced as new AoC president

She will succeed Sally Dicketts on October 16

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, T Levels

Small business chiefs make fresh calls for apprenticeship and T Level cash incentives return

One in five small businesses would take on an apprentice with the cash boost, FSB says

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Skills reform

Revealed: 37 business groups chosen to lead local skills plans

Leading employer groups across England will write local skills improvement plans which detail how provision should change to meet…

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