News Make colleges ‘jointly responsible’ for local skills improvement plans, principals tell Zahawi Leaders write to Zahawi calling for a strengthened role in the new policy Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y News Storm Eunice: Colleges close across south England The Met Office warned of flying debris resulting in danger to life Will Nott 3y Will Nott 3y Covid-19 DfE extends Covid school and college workforce fund until Easter Staff fund extended until April 8 Samantha Booth 3y Samantha Booth 3y Colleges Stop, collaborate and listen Leaders representing the four UK nations have their say on HE and FE collaboration FE Week Reporter 3y FE Week Reporter 3y Funding, Skills reform DfE publishes ESFA review but can’t confirm crucial post-16 responsibilities The review of the ESFA has now been published in full. Shane Chowen 3y Shane Chowen 3y Colleges Winners of the AoC Student of the Year Awards 2022 revealed Awards for the young student, adult student, higher education student and apprentice of the year are run by the… Will Nott 3y Will Nott 3y Build the future: National Apprenticeship Week 14/02/2022 Find out more News AoC: Relax financial intervention rules to protect college reputations A ‘significant minority’ of colleges face ‘real financial difficulty’ Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Apprenticeships Prisoners to finally be offered apprenticeships The scheme will initially be offered to up to a hundred prisoners across England before being rolled out across… Will Nott 3y Will Nott 3y Levelling Up Exclusive College alarm as study shows ‘elite’ sixth forms recruit from far and wide They also teach fewer poor students Will Nott 3y Will Nott 3y Awarding Awarding bodies’ report reveals rocketing cost of regulatory burden Regulation has risen ‘exponentially’ over the past decade, research finds Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Apprenticeships Apprenticeship funding band pilot finally gets underway Around 20 trailblazer groups from various sectors are set to be piloted Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Newer 1 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 803 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
