Spending Review Spending review: Minimum wage for apprentices to rise to £4.81 an hour It will take effect from April 1, 2022. Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Sponsored post Sponsored Changing EPAO can be an exciting and rewarding step for you and your learners Last month, I came across an informative and insightful article by Sallyann Baldry titled Considering Changing EPAO? A guide… Victoria Boyle 4y Victoria Boyle 4y Protect Student Choice, Qualifications BTECs: MPs to probe effect of defunding level 3 courses on learners Sector experts have been invited to contribute and a minister will be asked to give evidence Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Spending Review Spending review: funding boosts for 16-19 and adult training Treasury trails skills spending announcements ahead of the spending review. Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y 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 FE Week Podcast, net zero 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 Newer 1 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 820 Older Must read 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Billy Camden 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo