Digital Exclusive New digital functional skills qual: warning sounded on SEND exclusion Learners with special educational needs could be locked out by the new course’s subject content Fraser Whieldon 3y Fraser Whieldon 3y Climate Change Exclusive Net zero in FE: ‘Why aren’t we doing this yet?’ With the world’s eyes on the UK at COP26, Jess Staufenberg looks at who’s coming up with a proper… Jess Staufenberg 3y Jess Staufenberg 3y FE Week Podcast The FE Week Podcast: Special educational needs provision, sustainability and the spending review This week Shane is joined by David Russell, chief executive at the Education and Training Foundation, and Fiona Aldridge,… Jess Staufenberg 3y The FE Week Podcast 3y News AELP conference round-up: Top officials talk traineeships, achievement rates and T Levels Providers, regulators and government representatives headed to Manchester this week for the Association of Employment and Learning Providers’ (AELP)… Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y SEND, Spending Review Exclusive ‘Everything goes at 18’: Ofsted warns of SEND cliff-edge Experts have warned of ‘appalling’ guidance for families and out-of-date documentation Fraser Whieldon 3y Fraser Whieldon 3y Apprenticeships Insolvency Service to take no action against directors of collapsed provider 3aaa The Insolvency Service began investigating the company’s directors’ conduct following its collapse in 2018 Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Qualifications Ministers play down BTECs cull They have gone as far as to blame the media for fuelling a belief there will be a binary… Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y News College pleads for lifting of apprenticeship ban ‘We have been working to remove the suspension’ Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Christmas, Good for me good for FE Festive foodbank campaign relaunches as part of Good For Me, Good for FE Colleges will be encouraging staff and students to donate single items or create hampers for people in need Fraser Whieldon 3y Fraser Whieldon 3y T Levels T Level placements CAN be done remotely, DfE announces Up to 40% of placement hours can be spent not in the workplace Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Industrial action UCU claims victory over staff pay at 5 London colleges They include salary increases of up to 5%, increased annual leave and workload ‘protection’ Billy Camden 3y Billy Camden 3y Department for Education, Skills reform DfE finally finds chair for new Skills Reform Board Rebecca George formerly chaired a T Level reform board and sat on the education secretary’s business engagement forum Fraser Whieldon 3y Fraser Whieldon 3y Newer 1 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 803 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo 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
