FE Week Podcast The FE Week Podcast: Special educational needs provision, sustainability and the spending review This week Shane is joined by David Russell, chief executive at the Education and Training Foundation, and Fiona Aldridge,… Jess Staufenberg 4y The FE Week Podcast 4y News AELP conference round-up: Top officials talk traineeships, achievement rates and T Levels Providers, regulators and government representatives headed to Manchester this week for the Association of Employment and Learning Providers’ (AELP)… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y SEND, Spending Review Exclusive ‘Everything goes at 18’: Ofsted warns of SEND cliff-edge Experts have warned of ‘appalling’ guidance for families and out-of-date documentation Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Apprenticeships Insolvency Service to take no action against directors of collapsed provider 3aaa The Insolvency Service began investigating the company’s directors’ conduct following its collapse in 2018 Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Qualifications Ministers play down BTECs cull They have gone as far as to blame the media for fuelling a belief there will be a binary… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News College pleads for lifting of apprenticeship ban ‘We have been working to remove the suspension’ Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Christmas, Good for me good for FE Festive foodbank campaign relaunches as part of Good For Me, Good for FE Colleges will be encouraging staff and students to donate single items or create hampers for people in need Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y T Levels T Level placements CAN be done remotely, DfE announces Up to 40% of placement hours can be spent not in the workplace Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Industrial action UCU claims victory over staff pay at 5 London colleges They include salary increases of up to 5%, increased annual leave and workload ‘protection’ Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Department for Education, Skills reform DfE finally finds chair for new Skills Reform Board Rebecca George formerly chaired a T Level reform board and sat on the education secretary’s business engagement forum Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Level 2 business admin apprenticeship replacement ‘some distance off’, warns quango chief The proposal for a level 2 business administration replacement is “some distance off” the quality bar for apprenticeships, a… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Awarding City & Guilds appoints first female chair The sector leader with 25 years experience of FE says she is ‘delighted’ to take the role Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Newer 1 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 812 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 6d Jessica Hill 6d 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
