Sponsored post

British Army seeks ITPs to support their apprenticeship programme – contracting launch 

An upcoming event will cover how ITPs can tender for these support contracts

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Politics

How the education select committee looks now

The parliamentary education committee has welcomed five new members in the past year after several MPs stood down or…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Training Providers

Boss of England’s largest apprenticeship provider steps down

He has led the firm for 10 years

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Local skills improvement plans: What the trailblazer reports look like

Spanning over 500 pages in total, the “trailblazer” local skills improvement plans – a key plank of the government’s…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

SMEs frustrated as DfE refusal to reset non-levy cap halts apprenticeship starts

Employers reveal they are being forced to cancel recruitment plans and turn apprentices away

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
net zero

DfE climate change strategy: New FE teachers will be required to build sustainability into their teaching

Existing college staff will however not be required to include sustainability into their teaching

Will Nott
Will Nott


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Pearson BTEC and MOBIE help learners meet the sustainability challenge in construction

In this digital age, our learners are getting to grips with the new technologies driving the future of Net…

Pearson Btec
Pearson Btec
News

NUS is ‘systemically anti-Semitic’, and 3 other things Zahawi said at education committee

The education secretary gave evidence to MPs this morning

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

DfE to spend over £100m on digital platform for Multiply maths scheme

It will be designed to assess skill levels and provide online tutoring

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

First local skills improvement plans published

The plans are a key FE reform as outlined in the skills for jobs white paper

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

Revealed: Local area funding allocations for Multiply adult maths scheme

£270m is being dished out to mayoral combined authorities and local councils in England

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
T Levels

DfE seeks brokers for SME T Level placements

Up to £350 will be paid per placement to the winning contractors

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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Qualifications

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
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, 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
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read

Alun Francis, chair of the Social Mobility Commission

Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
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