News Zahawi grants new terms for deputy commissioners The deputy commissioners work with colleges with quality or financial health concerns. Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Covid-19 Sixth formers could be offered Covid booster jabs Booster jabs should be rolled out to 16 and 17 year olds, the JCVI has recommended. Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Adult education Skills bootcamps to be erected in nine new areas Existing providers of ‘high quality’ bootcamps have also been handed funding Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Ofsted Chamber-owned provider rated ‘inadequate’ for not matching curriculum to local skills needs It comes as chambers of commerce across England are piloting approaches to match skills provision to local needs Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Ofsted College left ‘surprised’ as Ofsted grades apprenticeships ‘inadequate’ Inspectors found ‘serious weaknesses’ but also reported a number of positive aspects of the college’s provision Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Skills reform DfE lost over £12m supporting national colleges last year New accounts reveal how much the DfE has spent propping up the sector and how it rates colleges’ financial… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y 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 Newer 1 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 820 Older Must read 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Billy Camden 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo
