Covid-19

IfATE grants extensions to more apprenticeship assessment flexibilities

The quango has become the latest official body to react to the new variant

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Ofsted

Let’s talk about SAKS: Provider scores top Ofsted marks

The provider was credited for working closely with employers, supporting its workforce, and for apprentices feeling safe

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Ofsted

Moulton rises from the ashes: College climbs out of ‘inadequate’

The principal has credited the result to her ‘amazing team’ having ‘massively pulled together’

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Skills reform

New DfE skills board: scanty minutes lead to ‘closed shop’ accusations

The DfE has again come under fire for a lack of transparency

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Higher education, Universities

Top university places up 28% after record A-level results

Accepted student numbers on competitive courses have soared

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

T Levels: 9 in 10 providers miss enrolment targets

Digital and the new health and science routes prove most difficult to sell to students

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


News

A class of their own: The school that enrolled one T Level student

A school handed £1.2 million for a new six-classroom, purpose-built block to teach the government’s flagship T Levels has…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

Revealed: Winners of the £34m HGV bootcamps tender

Flexibilities for HGV driver training funded under AEB have also been confirmed

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

First look at skills bootcamp outcomes

Nearly half of bootcamp participants didn’t achieve a positive employment outcome.

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Ofqual

Ian Bauckham made permanent chair of Ofqual

Academy trust boss Ian Bauckham has been appointed as Ofqual’s permanent chair, the exams regulator has announced. Bauckham, chief…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Covid-19

Omicron: What does Plan B mean for FE?

Face to face teaching must continue, and January exams will go ahead.

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Covid-19

Omicron: Ofsted suspend inspections

Ofsted inspections will be cancelled next week so colleges and providers can use the final days of term to…

John Dickens
John Dickens

Must read

Colleges, 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
Jessica Hill
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
Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

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
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, FE Commissioner

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel