Politics

Confirmed: Gillian Keegan leaves apprenticeships and skills minister role in reshuffle

She has been promoted to the Department of Health and Social Care as a minister of state.

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Politics

Reshuffle: Michelle Donelan taking FE and skills brief – sources

FE Week understands Donelan, who now attends cabinet, will be given the FE brief.

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Politics

Nadhim Zahawi: 12 facts about the new education secretary

Downing Street has announced that Nadhim Zahawi is the new education secretary following Boris Johnson’s reshuffle. Here is what…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Politics

Nadhim Zahawi appointed education secretary in ‘build back better’ reshuffle

He is a former apprenticeships adviser to the prime minister

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

‘Better late than never’: 16-18 traineeships tender to launch ‘later this month’

The news comes two days after Treasury revealed they had missed their target to triple the number of starts…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Politics

Confirmed: Williamson sacked as education secretary in reshuffle

The MP for South Staffordshire has been in post since July 2019

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Covid-19

Asymptomatic testing of FE students to continue for the rest of term

Ministers publish Covid autumn and winter plan

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Drop in A-levels diversity, and 4 more EPI findings

Students who take more diverse A-levels earn more money than their peers, a new report has found mid warnings…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Apprenticeships

DfE launches digital service for advertising levy transfers

DfE launch their scheme enabling levy payers to advertise their available funds for transfer.

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Covid-19

Tripling traineeships target missed by half, and 3 other findings from today’s Plan for Jobs progress report

The government has missed its target to triple the number of traineeships by more than half, a new report…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

FE Heroes of Olympics and Paralympics: Alumni make up a fifth of Team GB medal haul

Past and present FE students brought home more than a fifth of Team GB’s medal haul from this year’s…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Legal risk to providers over lack of non-binary options

Providers are warning they face “massive” legal and reputational risk because the Education and Skills Funding Agency continues to…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon

Must read

16-19

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

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
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, 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
Jessica Hill