Levelling Up

Levelling up: Plans for ‘elite’ new sixth forms and skills ‘mission’

Education and skills policies from the much anticipated levelling up white paper will also include a new ‘future skills…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Police won’t investigate DfE Christmas party, but Sue Gray findings withheld

Party was allegedly instigated by Gavin Williamson to ‘thank staff’ and attended by Susan Acland-Hood

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

First 11 FE research scholars named

Topics include racial inequality, regional outcomes, culture and finance

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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The Importance of Digital Skills in Adult Education & Employment

We discuss the value of digital skills in our communities and how these can be embedded into adult learning.

Ascentis
Ascentis
Colleges

College barber courses to run suicide prevention training

‘I’ve had people sit in my chair and tell me about everything… the affairs, the redundancies, the funerals. We…

Will Nott
Will Nott
Ofsted

Rail provider considers Ofsted challenge after damning ‘inadequate’ report

Ofsted found off-the-job training rules were being broken

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


News
Billy Camden
Skills reform

DfE switches to individualised learner record for skills bootcamps amid dodgy data concerns

There were reports of serious gaps in outcomes data under the previous system

Will Nott
Will Nott
Traineeships

What a waste: sector exasperated as £65m for traineeships is handed back to Treasury

Provider procurement delays to blame, says minister

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

‘Free courses for jobs’ initiative fails to boost enrolments

Early signs are that the new free level three offer isn’t yet boosting demand for courses.

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, Traineeships

Apprenticeship starts recovering to pre-pandemic levels, DfE data shows

But traineeships are still struggling to take off

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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The Pearson National Teaching Awards: Who Are You Nominating This Year? 

We are fast approaching a special time of the year for everyone working in education, and no, it’s not…

Teaching Awards Trust
Teaching Awards Trust

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Qualifications

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
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