Higher education, Universities Top university places up 28% after record A-level results Accepted student numbers on competitive courses have soared FE Week Reporter 4y FE Week Reporter 4y News Exclusive T Levels: 9 in 10 providers miss enrolment targets Digital and the new health and science routes prove most difficult to sell to students Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News A class of their own: The school that enrolled one T Level student A school handed £1.2 million for a new six-classroom, purpose-built block to teach the government’s flagship T Levels has… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Bootcamps Revealed: Winners of the £34m HGV bootcamps tender Flexibilities for HGV driver training funded under AEB have also been confirmed Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News First look at skills bootcamp outcomes Nearly half of bootcamp participants didn’t achieve a positive employment outcome. Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Ofqual Ian Bauckham made permanent chair of Ofqual Academy trust boss Ian Bauckham has been appointed as Ofqual’s permanent chair, the exams regulator has announced. Bauckham, chief… Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Covid-19 Omicron: What does Plan B mean for FE? Face to face teaching must continue, and January exams will go ahead. Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Covid-19 Exclusive Omicron: Ofsted suspend inspections Ofsted inspections will be cancelled next week so colleges and providers can use the final days of term to… John Dickens 4y John Dickens 4y News Cabinet secretary to investigate DfE Christmas party, says top civil servant Acland-Hood says December 10 event will form part of Simon Case’s investigation Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Prison education Government promises prison education service is coming – but when? In-cell technology is set to be expanded and new employment advisors in prisons are being introduced Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Ofsted Ofsted’s 2020/21 annual report: FE and skills hit ‘particularly hard’ by Covid Ofsted has today published its annual stocktake of education for the 2020/21 academic year, which saw inspection activity mostly… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Skills reform Investigation From the European Social Fund to Shared Prosperity Fund: ‘It’s a shambles’ Billions of pounds have poured into skills and education projects through the European Social Fund. Its replacement, the UK… Jess Staufenberg 4y Jess Staufenberg 4y Newer 1 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 812 Older Must read 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 5d Jessica Hill 5d Long read, Prison education Long read 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
