News

International college membership body appoints England-based principal as new chair

An England-based college principal has been named as the new chair of a global membership organisation for technical education…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

DfE’s skills and productivity board chair replaced after a year

The chair of the Department for Education’s skills and productivity board has stepped down a year after being appointed…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Sustainability issues could be prioritised in qualifications to break down barriers to teaching

How learners can protect the planet is set to be bumped up curriculums, after teachers complained the lack of…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Covid-19

Covid: College attendance data collection to go weekly from October

Schools and colleges will be asked to submit Covid-19  attendance data to the government on a weekly rather than…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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
Fraser Whieldon
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
Fraser Whieldon


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
Fraser Whieldon
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
Shane Chowen
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
Fraser Whieldon
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
Fraser Whieldon
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
Fraser Whieldon
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
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