News All colleges to receive carbon dioxide monitors to help ventilation The government is going to hand out around 300,000 carbon dioxide monitors to colleges in a £25 million scheme… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News DfE refuses petition’s call to back down from defunding BTECs The Department for Education has stood firm on plans to strip public funding from a range of qualifications at… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News NCFE launches £1 million fund to discover the future of assessment Organisations with their sights set on the future of assessment have been invited to apply to a £1 million… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Sector views sought on domestic abuse guidance Colleges and other education organisations are being asked for views on new statutory guidance on domestic abuse by the… Shane Chowen 4y Shane Chowen 4y News DfE puts out ‘Fire It Up’ campaign The Department for Education is ditching the multi-million pound ‘Fire It Up’ campaign meant to boost apprenticeship numbers, amid… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Colleges facing “immense” challenge from rising student numbers, warns IFS The Institute for Fiscal Studies has echoed calls for extra college funding to abate an “immense” resourcing challenge caused… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Covid-19 DfE outlines new Covid case ‘thresholds’ to prompt extra controls in providers – but their use is optional The government has updated its contingency framework for further education and skills providers to include new Covid case “thresholds”… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Student protests prompt college into review of certain A-level grades A college has promised a “wholesale” review of A-level grades it handed out for certain subjects this summer, after… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Gibb and Ofqual to face education committee hearing over exams Schools minister Nick Gibb and the leadership of exams regulator Ofqual will face questions from MPs at an education… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News A-levels 2021: Havering students picket college over lower than expected A-level grades Students and parents have picketed a London sixth form over accusations the college leadership unfairly altered their A-level grades…. Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Labour warns cutting off BTEC funding could entrench inequality Labour has warned cutting off public funding for BTECs could entrench inequalities in exam results, especially affecting students with… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Results day sees adult learners step towards new careers Adults across England are today finding out whether they have stepped closer to their dream careers or finally passed… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Newer 1 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 829 Older Must read 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 2w Shane Chowen 2w 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories Colleges, Long read Alun Francis, chair of the Social Mobility Commission Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is… Jessica Hill 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo Long read, Prison education Long read The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release ‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’ Jessica Hill 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 6mo Billy Camden 6mo