Apprenticeships ESFA finally launches Tripadvisor-style feedback feature for apprentices Apprentices can now give anonymous feedback and the results will appear on Find Apprenticeship Training Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y FE workforce Union targets college’s open days for strikes as ‘fire and rehire’ row escalates Staff at Richmond upon Thames College have warned they will strike during open days as a bitter dispute over… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y FE workforce College strike called off after staff win pay rise of up to 7.5% It comes weeks after the AoC recommended that college staff should be given a 2.25% pay rise next year Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Colleges ONS reclassification review: Colleges given weeks to submit borrowing and other financial data The Education and Skills Funding Agency today asked colleges for ‘immediate assistance’ to provide a debt return Will Nott 4y Will Nott 4y News Queen’s Birthday Honours 2022: Who received what in FE? Picking up the damehood was Ann Limb, who has over 25 years of experience in FE and was appointed… Will Nott 4y Will Nott 4y Apprenticeships SME cap on apprenticeship starts reset again to 0 The decision follows mounting pressure from the sector Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y WorldSkills WorldSkills Shanghai cancelled again due to Covid The global skills competition was scheduled to take place in October Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Colleges Major review launched to bring colleges back into public sector After ten years in the private sector, the ONS are now considering whether to reclassify colleges as public sector… Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Apprenticeships New DfE employer and apprentice surveys reveal reasons behind huge drop-out rate Complex and wide ranging contributers to withdrawals found by researchers Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y FE Week Podcast The FE Week Podcast: New college, new country – Refugees in FE After travelling thousands of miles, facing extremely dangerous situations, often stuck in legal limbo – refugee and asylum-seeking students… Jess Staufenberg 4y The FE Week Podcast 4y Colleges MBE for AoC’s Mary Vine-Morris The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the MBE was ‘testimony to Mary’s long-standing support for further education… Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y News Skills and Productivity Board and Unit for Future Skills: a one-stop shop of what has been published so far The SPB has now wound up and been replaced by the Unit for Future Skills. The research conducted over… Will Nott 4y Will Nott 4y Newer 1 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 854 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