News 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Sponsored post Sponsored 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 4y The Skills Network 4y 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 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y 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 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Newer 1 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 812 Older Must read 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 6d Jessica Hill 6d 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo