FE workforce Strike votes open at 33 colleges Industrial ballots opened today and will close on July 15 Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Sponsored post Sponsored AELP National Conference 2022 – Book your place now! Taking place on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 June, the 2022 AELP National Conference will be held at the… AELP 4y AELP 4y Long read Long read Focus feature: Women principals leaving a legacy in FE This year numerous top female college principals are stepping down after giving their professional lives to the FE sector…. Jess Staufenberg 4y Jess Staufenberg 4y News DfE permanently scraps annual FE learner and employer satisfaction surveys The survey is usually taken by hundreds of thousands of students and has run for most of the past… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Adult education, Apprenticeships, Politics IFS: Spending on adult education and apprenticeships will be 25% below 2010 levels by 2025 Spending on adult education and apprenticeships fell by 38 per cent in real-terms between 2010–11 and 2020–21 Will Nott 4y Will Nott 4y News Warning as cyber criminals try to cash in on exam season The Joint Council for Qualifications warned exams officers about the email earlier this week. The body said a ‘small… FE Week Reporter 4y FE Week Reporter 4y Young people No T Level achievement rates until wave 3 students complete But national-level results for T Levels will be published from the get-go, with the first set of outcomes set… Will Nott 4y Will Nott 4y News New alliance to offer fellowships for FE staff Colleges will have to be a member of both organisations and have ‘chartered status’ for staff to be eligible. Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Sponsored post Sponsored OCN London joins forces with the Met Police to help widen participation in the police service OCN London, a nationally recognised awarding organisation and Access Validation Agency (AVA), has developed a new Access to HE… OCN London 4y OCN London 4y News DfE seeks brokers to level up SME apprenticeships in the north Intermediaries told to also focus on boosting numbers of young apprentices Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Apprenticeships Apprenticeship funding at risk for slow progress drop-outs But providers are up in arms about the bureaucracy of the ‘impractical’ new rule Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News ESFA appoints David Withey as next permanent chief executive He replaces Eileen Milner who resigned last year Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Newer 1 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 854 Older Must read Awarding Earpiece exam cheat ring jailed over construction test fraud Men trained candidates to hide devices and exploit access arrangements to pass mandatory safety tests Josh Mellor 2d Josh Mellor 2d Adult education, Apprenticeships, Skills reform Apprenticeships purge: Team leader and chartered manager among 16 axed standards Ministers also unveil the first 7 apprenticeship units Shane Chowen 3w Shane Chowen 3w Colleges, Politics Exclusive Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’ The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords… Jessica Hill 1mo Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund 1mo Next 3 stories Colleges, Long read Investigation Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,… Jessica Hill 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo Colleges, Long read Exclusive Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety Shane Chowen 4mo Shane Chowen 4mo Young people 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 5mo Anviksha Patel 5mo