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 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y 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 4y Jess Staufenberg 4y 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 4y The FE Week Podcast 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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‘Everything goes at 18’: Ofsted warns of SEND cliff-edge Experts have warned of ‘appalling’ guidance for families and out-of-date documentation Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Apprenticeships Insolvency Service to take no action against directors of collapsed provider 3aaa The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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y News College pleads for lifting of apprenticeship ban ‘We have been working to remove the suspension’ Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Newer 1 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 807 Older Must read 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 14h Jessica Hill 14h 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 2w Billy Camden 2w 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 4w Anviksha Patel 4w Next 3 stories 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 2mo Josh Mellor 2mo
