News Exclusive Energy, audit and NI costs: colleges face a financial triple whammy Budgets nationally are set to be hit by tens of millions Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Activate unveils new chief exec and plans for another merger Gary Headland will succeed Sally Dicketts as CEO at Activate Learning. Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Qualifications BTECs: 118 MPs and Lords call on new education secretary to rethink cull ‘It is perfectly possible for T Levels, A-levels and BTECs to co-exist’, insist cross-party group Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Legislation, Skills reform Skills Bill debate: Senior Tories split on level 3 reform Several senior Conservative peers voted against the government last night following fiery exchanges on plans to scrap the majority… Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y 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 Newer 1 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 832 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
