News ‘Pull your weight’ on pre-16 attainment, colleges told The new OfS fair access director will address the sector for the first time later today. Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y Sponsored post Sponsored Levelling up Access to Further Education Whitepaper Colleges are searching for the alchemy to transform great face-to-face teaching into a powerful virtual course that meets the… Code Institute 4y Code Institute 4y Assessment Only use exam board websites to access advance information, students told GCSE and A-level students should only access advance information about exam topics on official websites, exam boards have said,… Samantha Booth 4y Samantha Booth 4y WorldSkills Getting ready for Shanghai: inside WorldSkills UK’s motivational bootcamp “I want you all to take a moment to think about why you want that gold medal” Will Nott 4y Will Nott 4y Ofsted Exclusive FE loans training provider goes bust after damning Ofsted inspection The ESFA immediately terminated the provider’s funding contract Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Ofsted Fourth consecutive ‘requires improvement’ Ofsted rating for BMet Inspectors criticised leaders for failing to ensure the college’s curriculum is “consistently good in all subjects and at all… Will Nott 4y Will Nott 4y Colleges Exclusive Councils oppose ‘elite’ sixth form plans Do not allow the new institutions to become ‘cuckoos in the nest’, ministers also warned Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Politics, Skills reform Top Tory mayor to bid for unprecedented skills powers West Midlands wants control beyond the adult education budget Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Apprenticeships Apprenticeship achievement rates removed due to ‘error’ It took the DfE’s statisticians almost a year to spot the issue Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Skills reform Levelling up white paper: The key reforms for FE and skills New sixth forms, a skills mission and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund all feature Will Nott 4y Will Nott 4y Adult education, Skills reform Levelling up: More areas to be offered devolved adult education budgets Long-awaited white paper reveals AEB devolution will be open to areas even if they do not have an elected… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Assessment Swap ‘cliff-edge’ GCSEs for ‘test when ready’, says exams review Independent Assessment Commission says qualifications are ‘inequitable and unreliable’ FE Week Reporter 4y FE Week Reporter 4y Newer 1 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 854 Older Must read Awarding Earpiece exam cheat ring jailed over construction test fraud Men trained candidates to hide devices and exploit access arrangements to pass mandatory safety tests Josh Mellor 2d Josh Mellor 2d Adult education, Apprenticeships, Skills reform Apprenticeships purge: Team leader and chartered manager among 16 axed standards Ministers also unveil the first 7 apprenticeship units Shane Chowen 3w Shane Chowen 3w Colleges, Politics Exclusive Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’ The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords… Jessica Hill 1mo Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund 1mo Next 3 stories Colleges, Long read Investigation Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,… Jessica Hill 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo Colleges, Long read Exclusive Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety Shane Chowen 4mo Shane Chowen 4mo Young people 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 5mo Anviksha Patel 5mo
