Skills reform Zahawi makes plea to peers to leave the skills bill alone A process informally known as ‘ping pong’ is set to take place Shane Chowen 3y Shane Chowen 3y Apprenticeships Unfair: Large apprenticeship providers ‘disproportionately penalised’ by new ESFA rule Agency to penalise providers for more than 100 withdrawals or delayed completions Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Skills reform, T Levels Ofqual proposes stricter controls on BTECs that survive qualifications cull Regulators have unveiled plans for more “rigorous” controls over the BTECs and other post-16 qualifications which survive a planned… FE Week Reporter 3y FE Week Reporter 3y News WorldSkills UK announces winners of equity, diversity and inclusion awards Winners included an electronics engineer who spent lockdown designing science packs for school children Will Nott 3y Will Nott 3y Higher education, Lifelong Learning, Skills reform Lifelong learning loans consultation finally launched A long-awaited consultation on the government’s flagship lifelong learning scheme points to limitations and restrictions. Shane Chowen 3y Shane Chowen 3y News Ministers scrap plans for post-qualification admissions DfE says support for shake-up of university admissions was ‘not strong enough’ Freddie Whittaker 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y Higher education, Lifelong Learning, Skills reform ‘Get on with it’ – government unveils lifelong learning plans Long-awaited plans for lifelong learning loans have been revealed as part of the government’s higher education funding reforms. Shane Chowen 3y Shane Chowen 3y Higher education ‘Ladder-up not levelling-up’: DfE urged to rethink student loan grade threshold plan Ministers are considering blocking pupils without certain grades from getting student finance Freddie Whittaker 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y News AELP chair stands down after 18 years AELP’s chief executive thanked Dunford for his “relentless commitment” to the organisation Will Nott 3y Will Nott 3y Skills reform Skills bill clears the commons The bill passed its remaining stages last night Shane Chowen 3y Shane Chowen 3y Covid-19 Weekly Covid testing for most students and staff ditched from today Boris Johnson outlines plan for ‘living with Covid-19’ Freddie Whittaker 3y Freddie Whittaker 3y FE Week Podcast The FE Week Podcast: The great pay divide Are staff struggling to make ends meet? Are they on unstable contracts? In the first of a new investigative… Jess Staufenberg 3y The FE Week Podcast 3y Newer 1 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 803 Older 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 3w Anviksha Patel 3w 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 4w Anviksha Patel 4w Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 1mo Josh Mellor 1mo Next 3 stories Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps Exclusive 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 2mo Billy Camden and Frances Read 2mo 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Adult education Exclusive Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo
