News Diversity toolkit launched to broaden apprenticeship intake Gathering data on apprentices, paying them more, and offering more level 2 courses are among the recommendations Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Climate Change, FE Week Podcast The FE Week Podcast: Reaching net zero, careers guidance and research in FE This week Shane is joined by college principal Ian Pryce and the chief operating officer of an independent training… Jess Staufenberg 4y FE Week Podcast 4y Ofsted Ofsted slams major NHS trust for rapid apprenticeship recruitment The trust made ‘insufficient progress’ in all three areas of a follow-up monitoring visit Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Skills reform Skills Bill: More government defeats as Lords debate careers, universal credit and apprenticeships The “report stage” in the House of Lords ended last night Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Colleges Four winners share the love our colleges prize Students and staff have produced a truly inspiring spread to celebrate Colleges Week Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Subcontracting Exclusive Devolved subcontracting in the dark Hundreds of millions worth of deals hidden by MCAs Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Exclusive Why so secret?: Skills and Productivity Board faces challenge on its silences Were they silent, or were they silenced? Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Colleges Social background and college type can affect earnings and progression Social mobility charity Sutton Trust is calling for the pupil premium to extend to 16-19s. FE Week Reporter 4y FE Week Reporter 4y Bootcamps, Spending Review Bootcamps evaluation rings spending review alarm bells The government is oblivious to how many people from the first wave secured a job or received a pay… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Climate Change Make climate education compulsory and give us £1.5bn to build sustainable campuses, colleges tell government Their demands have been made in a letter signed by 150 college bosses to prime minister Boris Johnson and… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Research FE staff offered scholarships to explore gaps in sector’s research The scheme is intended to tackle a ‘historic’ lack of research in the sector Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Sponsored post Sponsored Presenting a curriculum that works for every learner, whoever they are or whatever they want to be Pearson has launched a free BTEC Options tool. Pearson Btec 4y Pearson Btec 4y Newer 1 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 812 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
