Skills reform Exclusive New DfE skills board: scanty minutes lead to ‘closed shop’ accusations The DfE has again come under fire for a lack of transparency Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Universities Top university places up 28% after record A-level results Accepted student numbers on competitive courses have soared FE Week Reporter 4y FE Week Reporter 4y News Exclusive T Levels: 9 in 10 providers miss enrolment targets Digital and the new health and science routes prove most difficult to sell to students Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News A class of their own: The school that enrolled one T Level student A school handed £1.2 million for a new six-classroom, purpose-built block to teach the government’s flagship T Levels has… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Adult education Revealed: Winners of the £34m HGV bootcamps tender Flexibilities for HGV driver training funded under AEB have also been confirmed Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News First look at skills bootcamp outcomes Nearly half of bootcamp participants didn’t achieve a positive employment outcome. Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Ofqual Ian Bauckham made permanent chair of Ofqual Academy trust boss Ian Bauckham has been appointed as Ofqual’s permanent chair, the exams regulator has announced. Bauckham, chief… Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y Covid-19 Omicron: What does Plan B mean for FE? Face to face teaching must continue, and January exams will go ahead. Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Covid-19 Exclusive Omicron: Ofsted suspend inspections Ofsted inspections will be cancelled next week so colleges and providers can use the final days of term to… John Dickens 4y John Dickens 4y News Cabinet secretary to investigate DfE Christmas party, says top civil servant Acland-Hood says December 10 event will form part of Simon Case’s investigation Freddie Whittaker 4y Freddie Whittaker 4y Prison education Government promises prison education service is coming – but when? In-cell technology is set to be expanded and new employment advisors in prisons are being introduced Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Ofsted Ofsted’s 2020/21 annual report: FE and skills hit ‘particularly hard’ by Covid Ofsted has today published its annual stocktake of education for the 2020/21 academic year, which saw inspection activity mostly… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Newer 1 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 832 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
