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 3y Jason Noble 3y 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 3y Shane Chowen 3y The Future of Assessment 1/09/2022 Find out more Ofsted Ofsted ditches Covid disruption deferral policy The inspection code of conduct has also been strengthened Samantha Booth 3y Samantha Booth and Tom Belger 3y Ofsted SEND college judged ‘inadequate’ over safety concerns Staffing issues and gaps in SEND experience highlighted by watchdog Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Apprenticeships Revealed: First solely apprenticeship provider granted degree awarding powers Euan Blair’s Multiverse can now run and award its own degree level apprenticeships Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Awarding Pearson faces record £1.3m fine for letting examiners remark own work ‘No evidence’ students received the wrong outcomes but schools and colleges awarded £300k compensation Samantha Booth 3y Samantha Booth 3y News Provider plans to quickly double apprentice numbers after securing ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating MBKB Ltd secures top rating just six years after first offering apprenticeships. Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Colleges Hull College names National Leader of Governance and former newspaper editor as new chair Rob Lawson will succeed Lesley Davies Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Devolution East Midlands area secures adult education budget powers in first of a kind county devolution deal Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire secure adult education budget responsibilities as first mayoral combined county authority. Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Awarding Access to HE awarding body files for insolvency It comes weeks after the organisation split from the NOCN Group Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y 16-19, English and maths, Results 2022 GCSE results 2022: Maths and English resits pass rate takes big drop Pass rate also takes a slight dip on pre-pandemic levels Jason Noble 3y Jason Noble 3y Newer 1 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 832 Older Must read 16-19 Long read Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals Anviksha Patel 2d Anviksha Patel 2d News Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the… Shane Chowen 1w Shane Chowen 1w Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 2w Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 2w Next 3 stories Qualifications Exclusive 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Colleges, Long read 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo
