Apprenticeships Apprenticeship achievement rates removed due to ‘error’ It took the DfE’s statisticians almost a year to spot the issue Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Levelling Up Levelling up white paper: The key reforms for FE and skills New sixth forms, a skills mission and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund all feature Will Nott 4y Will Nott 4y Levelling Up Levelling up: More areas to be offered devolved adult education budgets Long-awaited white paper reveals AEB devolution will be open to areas even if they do not have an elected… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Assessment Swap ‘cliff-edge’ GCSEs for ‘test when ready’, says exams review Independent Assessment Commission says qualifications are ‘inequitable and unreliable’ FE Week Reporter 4y FE Week Reporter 4y Teaching Lifetime bans for teachers guilty of serious misconduct to be extended to FE Anyone involved in ‘teaching work’ in the post-16 sector could be in scope of teacher misconduct rules. Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y News First 11 FE research scholars named Topics include racial inequality, regional outcomes, culture and finance Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Sponsored post Sponsored 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 4y Ascentis 4y 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 4y Will Nott 4y Ofsted Rail provider considers Ofsted challenge after damning ‘inadequate’ report Ofsted found off-the-job training rules were being broken Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Stoke-on-Trent College announces former skills civil servant as new principal Lisa Capper replaces Denise Brown Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Newer 1 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 832 Older Must read 16-19 Long read Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals Anviksha Patel 3d Anviksha Patel 3d News Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the… Shane Chowen 1w Shane Chowen 1w Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 3w Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 3w Next 3 stories Qualifications Exclusive 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Colleges, Long read 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo
