Levelling Up

Levelling up white paper: The key reforms for FE and skills

New sixth forms, a skills mission and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund all feature

Will Nott
Will Nott
Levelling Up

Levelling up: More areas to be offered devolved adult education budgets

Long-awaited white paper reveals AEB devolution will be open to areas even if they do not have an elected…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Exams

Swap ‘cliff-edge’ GCSEs for ‘test when ready’, says exams review 

Independent Assessment Commission says qualifications are ‘inequitable and unreliable’

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Teaching

Lifetime bans for teachers guilty of serious misconduct to be extended to FE

Anyone involved in ‘teaching work’ in the post-16 sector could be in scope of teacher misconduct rules.

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Levelling Up

Levelling up: Plans for ‘elite’ new sixth forms and skills ‘mission’

Education and skills policies from the much anticipated levelling up white paper will also include a new ‘future skills…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Police won’t investigate DfE Christmas party, but Sue Gray findings withheld

Party was allegedly instigated by Gavin Williamson to ‘thank staff’ and attended by Susan Acland-Hood

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


News

First 11 FE research scholars named

Topics include racial inequality, regional outcomes, culture and finance

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Sponsored post

The Importance of Digital Skills in Adult Education & Employment

We discuss the value of digital skills in our communities and how these can be embedded into adult learning.

Ascentis
Ascentis
Colleges

College barber courses to run suicide prevention training

‘I’ve had people sit in my chair and tell me about everything… the affairs, the redundancies, the funerals. We…

Will Nott
Will Nott
Ofsted

Rail provider considers Ofsted challenge after damning ‘inadequate’ report

Ofsted found off-the-job training rules were being broken

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News
Billy Camden
Skills reform

DfE switches to individualised learner record for skills bootcamps amid dodgy data concerns

There were reports of serious gaps in outcomes data under the previous system

Will Nott
Will Nott

Must read

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
Colleges, FE Commissioner

Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal

Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
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