Ofsted

Provider challenges Ofsted for ‘factually incorrect’ report

A care worker apprenticeship provider is challenging a damaging Ofsted report and accused inspectors of lacking the knowledge to…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Apprenticeships

ESFA to select providers for reapplication to apprenticeships register in random order

Providers on the apprenticeships register will be “randomly selected” to reapply in different phases over the next year, the…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

National college closes without ever having opened

One of the government’s once-vaunted national colleges is being wound up – without ever opening, FE Week can reveal….

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Skills Bill: DfE accused of ‘power-grab’ over colleges

The much-heralded Skills Bill contains a Department for Education “power-grab” and will “fail to meet the scale of the…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

£250m of apprenticeship funding went back to Treasury in 2020-21

Apprenticeship funding to the tune of £250 million was handed back to the Treasury in 2020-21, FE Week can…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

‘Middle-class grab’ on apprenticeships confirmed by new analysis

The apprenticeship reforms are increasingly disadvantaging people from low-income areas, new FE Week analysis has revealed. Since the new-style…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


News

Right2Learn campaign to host inaugural conference tonight

A new campaign that argues for a lifelong statutory right to fully funded learning for every adult is holding…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

International partnerships announced to boost post-pandemic skills recovery

WorldSkills UK is signing up to a host of partnerships with overseas counterparts which will mean greater sharing of…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Reverse adult education clawback plans, says cross-party group of MPs

A cross-party group of MPs has called on the education secretary to reverse his adult education budget clawback plans…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Meet WorldSkills UK’s new Skills Taskforce for Global Britain

A team of education and business leaders have been assembled to drive the use of skills in “levelling up”…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Speed read: Skills and Post-16 Education Bill published

The first draft of the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill has officially been laid before parliament. It outlines the…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Forced college mergers – and other Skills Bill revelations

New powers are set to be handed to the education secretary to force college mergers, an impact assessment of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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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
Adult education, ITPs

Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers

Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps

Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps

Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Frances Read
Apprenticeships

Entrepreneur chased for millions after apprenticeship collapse

ESFA uncovers ‘fake’ taxi apprentices as liquidator reveals intercompany payments days after firm decided to shut

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets

Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen