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Independent review to check ESFA ‘remains effective’

An independent review has been launched to ensure the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) “remains effective into the…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Remote apprenticeship assessment to be made permanent option

Remote delivery of apprenticeship assessment will become a permanent option that providers can use beyond Covid-19, the Institute for…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Apprenticeship provider register to open to all new applicants later this month

The register of apprenticeship training providers will be opened to all corners this month, but new applicants will only…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Apprenticeships

New Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education chair named

A life peer who stood in the London mayoral election for 2020 has been appointed as the Institute for…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Revealed: The FE providers to win Turing Scheme funding

Over one hundred colleges and training providers have been awarded funding under the government’s new Turing Scheme – but…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
AEB

Somerset Skills & Learning to make more redundancies after latest AEB tender debacle

Staff are being made redundant at a large community learning provider in Somerset after it was dealt yet another…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


News

Troubled college forced into last-minute change of merger partner

A troubled college’s plans to merge with a major college group have been abandoned at the eleventh hour after…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Pearson to return 33% of exam fees

Pearson has finally revealed its hand on exam fee rebates, announcing today it will return 33 per cent of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Bidding opens for £7m flexi-job apprenticeship development fund

Applications have opened for a £7 million fund to set up flexible apprenticeships in sectors struggling to meet the…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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UK Training Provider The Skills Network announce new Sexual Consent course following changes to Ofsted regulations

In response to updated regulatory guidance on safeguarding against sexual harassment and crimes within education settings, UK training provider…

The Skills Network
The Skills Network
News

New £55k chair wanted to steer Ofqual through ‘unprecedented challenges’

The government is searching for a new Ofqual chair to steer the regulator through “unprecedented challenges” and shape the…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

ESFA U-turns on banning providers from assessing learning difficulties for funding

The government has U-turned on a controversial new funding rule which could have meant apprentices’ learning difficulties could have…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon

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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
Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

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
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, FE Commissioner

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel
T Levels

NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure

Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel