News T Levels attract 5,450 new students in 2021 And around 3,550 students started the T Level transition programme Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News FE base rate to increase from August 2022 to £4,542 An 8.4% increase in the national funding rate for students aged 16-17 will be applied Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Universities and colleges announced for new £2m short HE course trial Only one college has been chosen for the new Higher Education Short Course trial Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Revealed: The winners in the £120m Institutes of Technology wave 2 competition The names of the next nine colleges and universities to develop new Institutes of Technology have been named. The… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News DfE launches £150m capital fund for wave four T Level providers Colleges and training providers in the fourth wave of the T Level rollout are being invited to bid for… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News DfE top boss handed £278k payout to leave after exams fiasco Jonathan Slater had just eight months left in post, but was pushed out in spate of perm sec departures FE Week Reporter 4y FE Week Reporter 4y News DfE looks to ex-teachers to fill Covid staffing gaps Leaders also asked to ‘use their own networks to encourage sign-up’ FE Week Reporter 4y FE Week Reporter 4y News Just 195 of 5.7m teacher grades changed after exam board reviews And for the almost 1m VTQ TAGs, just 636 were changed Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Covid-19 Education recovery in FE: Ofsted reveals key findings from autumn 2021 inspections Providers’ finances have suffered, apprentices have been unable to take exams and staff are facing ever-increasing workloads Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News AoC recommends ‘kick in the teeth’ 1% college staff pay rise – again Unions say staff will ‘rightly be furious at this offensive’ offer Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News DfE extends Covid workforce fund until Feb half-term The scheme was reintroduced last month amid rising rates FE Week Reporter 4y FE Week Reporter 4y Covid-19, T Levels Covid delays Ofsted’s T Level research Yet another delay to Ofsted and T Levels Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Newer 1 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 817 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 4w Jessica Hill 4w 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo