Sponsored post Sponsored Supporting your learners to develop skills for the future workplace with Barclays LifeSkills Explore how Barclays LifeSkills can help you to support your learners in developing their skills Barclays LifeSkills 4y Barclays LifeSkills 4y News Thousands of adults to be offered free new technical courses – but 2 regions miss out Institutes of Technology will offer 65 new short and modular courses later this month Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Revealed: Over 100 colleges and unis to share £18m fund to expand higher technical quals The names of more than 100 FE and HE providers to win a slice of an £18 million ‘growth… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Feature, News Exclusive It’s a delicate business, this assessment reform The debate about high-stakes assessment is hotting up. Jess Staufenberg talks to the movers and shakers You will have… Jess Staufenberg 4y Jess Staufenberg 4y Covid-19 Zahawi and Javid encourage school and college student vaccine take-up The education and health secretaries have urged parents to get their children vaccinated to prevent the spread of Covid-19…. FE Week Reporter 4y FE Week Reporter 4y Adult education DfE sets off on £17m hunt for HGV bootcamp training providers The DfE has upped the budget and is now looking for nearly twice the number of drivers they were… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News College principal to become government’s new Social Mobility Commission deputy Alun Francis expected to be second-in-command to Katharine Birbalsingh – head of the country’s ‘strictest school’ Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Skills reform Calls grow for reform of ELQ rules Former Conservative ministers and trade union bosses have both called for retraining rules to be relaxed Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y recruitment ETF mulls scheme to bring out-of-work professionals into FE teaching It comes after the Department for Education admitted there are ‘significant difficulties’ recruiting FE teachers Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Covid-19 College brings back face masks after rise in Covid cases It comes after a cases in Derbyshire increased by 6.5 per cent in a week Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y FE Week Podcast The FE Week Podcast: The Tory Party Conference, Lords ‘Peer Review’ the Skills Bill and the future of assessment In this week’s episode, we’re joined by exams board guru Kirstie Donnelly and policy director Simon Ashworth Shane Mann 4y FE Week Podcast 4y News Tributes paid after death of ‘larger than life’ principal John Callaghan Callaghan has been called an ‘exceptional’ principal by sector leaders Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Newer 1 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 829 Older Must read 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 2w Shane Chowen 2w 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo 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 6mo Billy Camden 6mo
