Apprenticeships, Young people Small business chiefs make fresh calls for apprenticeship and T Level cash incentives return One in five small businesses would take on an apprentice with the cash boost, FSB says Jason Noble 4y Jason Noble 4y Skills reform Revealed: 37 business groups chosen to lead local skills plans Leading employer groups across England will write local skills improvement plans which detail how provision should change to meet… Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y The Future of Assessment 1/09/2022 Find out more Ofsted Ofsted ditches Covid disruption deferral policy The inspection code of conduct has also been strengthened Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth and Tom Belger 4y Ofsted SEND college judged ‘inadequate’ over safety concerns Staffing issues and gaps in SEND experience highlighted by watchdog Jason Noble 4y Jason Noble 4y Apprenticeships Revealed: First solely apprenticeship provider granted degree awarding powers Euan Blair’s Multiverse can now run and award its own degree level apprenticeships Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Awarding Pearson faces record £1.3m fine for letting examiners remark own work ‘No evidence’ students received the wrong outcomes but schools and colleges awarded £300k compensation Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y News Provider plans to quickly double apprentice numbers after securing ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating MBKB Ltd secures top rating just six years after first offering apprenticeships. Jason Noble 4y Jason Noble 4y Colleges Hull College names National Leader of Governance and former newspaper editor as new chair Rob Lawson will succeed Lesley Davies Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Adult education East Midlands area secures adult education budget powers in first of a kind county devolution deal Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire secure adult education budget responsibilities as first mayoral combined county authority. Jason Noble 4y Jason Noble 4y Awarding Access to HE awarding body files for insolvency It comes weeks after the organisation split from the NOCN Group Jason Noble 4y Jason Noble 4y Young people GCSE results 2022: Maths and English resits pass rate takes big drop Pass rate also takes a slight dip on pre-pandemic levels Jason Noble 4y Jason Noble 4y Newer 1 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 854 Older Must read Awarding Earpiece exam cheat ring jailed over construction test fraud Men trained candidates to hide devices and exploit access arrangements to pass mandatory safety tests Josh Mellor 2d Josh Mellor 2d Adult education, Apprenticeships, Skills reform Apprenticeships purge: Team leader and chartered manager among 16 axed standards Ministers also unveil the first 7 apprenticeship units Shane Chowen 3w Shane Chowen 3w Colleges, Politics Exclusive Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’ The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords… Jessica Hill 1mo Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund 1mo Next 3 stories Colleges, Long read Investigation Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,… Jessica Hill 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo Colleges, Long read Exclusive Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety Shane Chowen 4mo Shane Chowen 4mo Young people 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 5mo Anviksha Patel 5mo
