Spending Review Spending review: funding boosts for 16-19 and adult training Treasury trails skills spending announcements ahead of the spending review. Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y News Diversity toolkit launched to broaden apprenticeship intake Gathering data on apprentices, paying them more, and offering more level 2 courses are among the recommendations Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y FE Week Podcast, net zero The FE Week Podcast: Reaching net zero, careers guidance and research in FE This week Shane is joined by college principal Ian Pryce and the chief operating officer of an independent training… Jess Staufenberg 4y FE Week Podcast 4y Ofsted Ofsted slams major NHS trust for rapid apprenticeship recruitment The trust made ‘insufficient progress’ in all three areas of a follow-up monitoring visit Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y 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 4y Shane Chowen 4y Colleges Four winners share the love our colleges prize Students and staff have produced a truly inspiring spread to celebrate Colleges Week Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Subcontracting Exclusive Devolved subcontracting in the dark Hundreds of millions worth of deals hidden by MCAs Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Exclusive Why so secret?: Skills and Productivity Board faces challenge on its silences Were they silent, or were they silenced? Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y FE Week Reporter 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Newer 1 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 832 Older Must read 16-19 Long read Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals Anviksha Patel 3d Anviksha Patel 3d News Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the… Shane Chowen 2w Shane Chowen 2w Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 3w Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 3w Next 3 stories 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo
