Covid-19 Omicron: What you need to know about new guidance for education Principals told in an email this afternoon about rule changes for face masks and close contact isolation John Dickens 4y John Dickens 4y WorldSkills WorldSkills UK medal winners announced on C4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch Competitors from across the UK came together to celebrate each other’s success Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Industrial action London college group settles pay dispute after strike The union has agreed to pay staff extra and scrap an ‘open classroom model’ Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Devolution Exclusive Ofsted at odds with mayoral combined authority’s provision A potential conflict is brewing between central government bodies and devolved areas Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Skills reform Government strips popular Lords amendments from Skills Bill Ministers have put in a number of their own changes to the bill to rip up the Lords’ work Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y News Chartered Institution for FE admits 6 new members The institution now has twenty-one members paying an annual subscription fee of £5,000 Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Apprenticeships Exclusive Do better: schools urged to up £4.30-an-hour apprentice TA wage Some schools and trusts are offering TA apprentices less than £7,000 a year Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News Exclusive Let T Level students study other quals at the same time, says new Ofqual chief ‘If I was in charge of T Level policy you would have a T Level that was equivalent to… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Raise profile of degree apprenticeships or see them falter, universities warn Aspirations to ramp up degree apprenticeships in England will be stifled unless the government raises the profile of the… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Apprenticeships Lords committee urges levy spending focus on the young and on lower level courses The government has again been warned changes are needed for the apprenticeship levy Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Kickstart breaks down: NAO reports on massive underspend and ‘deadweight’ jobs At a cost of £7k per participant, Kickstart has become DWP’s most expensive support scheme Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Colleges The Queen recognises five colleges’ excellence in her Anniversary Prizes Colleges have been recognised for becoming leaders in certain fields and helping learners find jobs Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Newer 1 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 817 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
