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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y T Levels DfE seeks brokers for SME T Level placements Up to £350 will be paid per placement to the winning contractors Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Government may stop engaging with NUS over antisemitism allegations, minister warns But the union has hit back, accusing the minister of spreading misinformation Will Nott 4y Will Nott 4y Staff College staff warn of strike action if pay doesn’t increase by 10% Staff pay has fallen by 35 per cent in real terms since 2009 and an indicative ballot of UCU… Will Nott 4y Will Nott 4y Qualifications, T Levels ‘Significantly’ less than half of AGQs like BTECs will get the chop, government concedes ‘Through this process we expect to remove just a small proportion of the total level 3 BTEC and other… Will Nott 4y Will Nott 4y News Education and Training Foundation boss stands down The Education and Training Foundation has announced that David Russell has left the organisation. Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Covid-19 Ofsted: Eight key points from latest education recovery research Providers told Ofsted that apprentices were not being given enough tasks due to pressures on businesses. Will Nott 4y Will Nott 4y Teaching Flagship teacher recruitment programme opens to more specialisms Training providers and colleges can now apply to for funding for recruits to English, maths and SEND teaching posts… Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Skills reform ‘Unit for future skills’ to launch this month Course information for employers and learners through a new ‘unit for future skills’ will start being published this month,… Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Sponsored post Sponsored A green skills solution from The Skills Network As the climate crisis grows, calls for an integration of a fourth functional sustainability skill into mass upskilling across… The Skills Network 4y The Skills Network 4y Colleges Capital projects worth £400 million given green light The government’s flagship college capital investment programme awards a further £400 million, but rising prices bring costs in to… Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Newer 1 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 832 Older Must read 16-19 Long read 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 2d Anviksha Patel 2d 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 1w Shane Chowen 1w Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 3w Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 3w Next 3 stories Qualifications Exclusive 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Colleges, Long read 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo
