Apprenticeships

Help boost apprenticeship starts among young people and fix the drop-out rate, skills minister tells IfATE

Alex Burghart issues tasks to the institute in new ‘strategic guidance’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
FE Week Podcast

The FE Week Podcast: Is there a device crisis in FE?

Is device use seriously negatively affecting student learning? How can devices be used well? And what is the situation…

Jess Staufenberg
The FE Week Podcast
Apprenticeships

Deadline to claim apprenticeship cash incentives extended by 5 days

The change has been made in response to employer complaints that the deadline was on a weekend

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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
Sponsored post

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

Must read

16-19

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
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