Skills reform Hunt begins for ‘employer representative bodies’ to pilot local skills improvement plans Employer representative bodies are being asked by government to step forward and lead pilots for new local skills improvement… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Skills reform Colleges invited to bid for £65m Strategic Development Fund pilot – but must collaborate A new fund that aims to force college collaboration has opened for bids today. Colleges can now tender to… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Government consults on replacing ATAs with new ‘flexi-job’ apprenticeship scheme The government has announced plans to withdraw its register of apprenticeship training agencies (ATAs) and replace it with a… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Apprenticeship provider slammed as Ofsted returns to work The first new provider monitoring visit report since Ofsted restarted the in-person inspections has found ‘insufficient’ delivery. New provider… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Exclusive £36m bootcamp results delayed The results of the government’s national skills bootcamp tender have been hit by a “very worrying” delay. Contracts were… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Sponsored post Sponsored Pearson Digital Live: Evolving Education | 26–29 April 2021 Following the success of last year’s event, Pearson is thrilled to announce our free virtual Digital Live conference is back… Pearson 4y Pearson 4y News WorldSkills UK LIVE cancelled again – but national skills competitions return The country’s biggest skills and careers event has been cancelled for a second year – but national skills competitions… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Apprenticeships Call for new ‘baccalaureate’ to replace A-levels, BTECs, T-Levels and apprenticeships A three-year ‘baccalaureate’ should be introduced to replace A-levels, BTECs, T-Levels and apprenticeships, a think tank has said. A… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Colleges take adult education clawback battle to Downing Street Colleges have called on the prime minister to intervene in the government’s “devastating” adult education clawback plans that risk… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Prison education: Three days of strikes announced Education staff at 49 prisons across England will go on three days of strike action in the coming weeks… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News ‘Staggering’ number of college students ‘between one and four months behind’, AoC survey warns A “staggering” three quarters of 16 to 18-year-old college students are performing below normal expectations and are between one… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News, Opinion Sponsored AAC 2021 | An opportunity to look to recovery and the future of apprenticeships At the FE Week Annual Apprenticeship Conference (AAC) in 2020 we all gathered in Birmingham knowing that it was… Shane Mann 4y KIRSTIE DONNELLY 4y Newer 1 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 804 Older Must read 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 3w Anviksha Patel 3w 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 1mo Josh Mellor 1mo Next 3 stories Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps Exclusive 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 2mo Billy Camden and Frances Read 2mo 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Adult education Exclusive Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo
