News ESFA appoints David Withey as next permanent chief executive He replaces Eileen Milner who resigned last year Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Apprenticeships ESFA finally launches Tripadvisor-style feedback feature for apprentices Apprentices can now give anonymous feedback and the results will appear on Find Apprenticeship Training Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Staff Union targets college’s open days for strikes as ‘fire and rehire’ row escalates Staff at Richmond upon Thames College have warned they will strike during open days as a bitter dispute over… Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Staff College strike called off after staff win pay rise of up to 7.5% It comes weeks after the AoC recommended that college staff should be given a 2.25% pay rise next year Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Colleges ONS reclassification review: Colleges given weeks to submit borrowing and other financial data The Education and Skills Funding Agency today asked colleges for ‘immediate assistance’ to provide a debt return Will Nott 3y Will Nott 3y News Queen’s Birthday Honours 2022: Who received what in FE? Picking up the damehood was Ann Limb, who has over 25 years of experience in FE and was appointed… Will Nott 3y Will Nott 3y Apprenticeships SME cap on apprenticeship starts reset again to 0 The decision follows mounting pressure from the sector Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y WorldSkills WorldSkills Shanghai cancelled again due to Covid The global skills competition was scheduled to take place in October Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Colleges Major review launched to bring colleges back into public sector After ten years in the private sector, the ONS are now considering whether to reclassify colleges as public sector… Shane Chowen 3y Shane Chowen 3y Apprenticeships New DfE employer and apprentice surveys reveal reasons behind huge drop-out rate Complex and wide ranging contributers to withdrawals found by researchers Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y FE Week Podcast The FE Week Podcast: New college, new country – Refugees in FE After travelling thousands of miles, facing extremely dangerous situations, often stuck in legal limbo – refugee and asylum-seeking students… Jess Staufenberg 3y The FE Week Podcast 3y Colleges MBE for AoC’s Mary Vine-Morris The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the MBE was ‘testimony to Mary’s long-standing support for further education… Shane Chowen 3y Shane Chowen 3y Newer 1 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 832 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