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
Shane Chowen
Colleges

Four winners share the love our colleges prize

Students and staff have produced a truly inspiring spread to celebrate Colleges Week

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Subcontracting

Devolved subcontracting in the dark

Hundreds of millions worth of deals hidden by MCAs

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News
Billy Camden
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
FE Week Reporter
Adult education, Spending Review

Bootcamps evaluation rings spending review alarm bells

The government is oblivious to how many people from the first wave secured a job or received a pay…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


net zero

Make climate education compulsory and give us £1.5bn to build sustainable campuses, colleges tell government

Their demands have been made in a letter signed by 150 college bosses to prime minister Boris Johnson and…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Research

FE staff offered scholarships to explore gaps in sector’s research

The scheme is intended to tackle a ‘historic’ lack of research in the sector

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Pearson Btec
Universal Credit

Universal Credit training flexibility extended by six months

Learners will continue to be able to receive Universal Credit while studying longer courses

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Prison education

Give every prisoner in-cell access to the internet, charity tells chancellor

Covid-19 exposed how prisons are ‘stuck in the digital dark ages, says Prisoners’ Education Trust

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
net zero

Colleges ‘key’ to net zero strategy, says government

Ministers are aiming to support 440,000 net zero jobs by 2030

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

Qualifications

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
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, 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
Jessica Hill
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