News Boost to employer cash incentives for T Level industry placements The government has temporarily upped the cash incentives for employers running T Level industry placements to £1,000. It comes… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Revealed: Top 10 highest paid college leaders in 2019/20 The highest paid college principals and chief executives in 2019/20 have been revealed by the Education and Skills Funding… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News HE admissions service to ‘act as a digital Baker Clause’ UCAS has pledged to act as a “digital Baker Clause” and reform its service to be “as strong for… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Prison education: 5 things we learned from today’s education committee hearing The Commons’ education select committee heard from expert witnesses and two sector leaders today as part of its ongoing… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Ofsted Ofsted finds apprentices without jobs at provider Ofsted has chastised an online training provider after finding cases where, “in contrast to the records held”, apprentices did… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Exclusive College suspends principal just two months before merger A college being forced into a merger after an audit revealed a £5.35 million over-claim has now suspended its… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Exclusive For sale! Land of insolvent college goes on the market for £580K England’s first college to be put through the government’s insolvency regime is selling off a huge parcel of land,… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Ofsted Exclusive Provider challenges Ofsted for ‘factually incorrect’ report A care worker apprenticeship provider is challenging a damaging Ofsted report and accused inspectors of lacking the knowledge to… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Apprenticeships Exclusive ESFA to select providers for reapplication to apprenticeships register in random order Providers on the apprenticeships register will be “randomly selected” to reapply in different phases over the next year, the… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Exclusive National college closes without ever having opened One of the government’s once-vaunted national colleges is being wound up – without ever opening, FE Week can reveal…. Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Exclusive Skills Bill: DfE accused of ‘power-grab’ over colleges The much-heralded Skills Bill contains a Department for Education “power-grab” and will “fail to meet the scale of the… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News £250m of apprenticeship funding went back to Treasury in 2020-21 Apprenticeship funding to the tune of £250 million was handed back to the Treasury in 2020-21, FE Week can… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Newer 1 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 817 Older Must read community cohesion 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 6h Jessica Hill 6h 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe Anviksha Patel 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
