News Lessons learned from training through the pandemic College leaders have shared the key lessons and insights they have learned from delivering training through the pandemic in… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Legal apprentice provider penalised by watchdog A leading commercial training provider for the legal profession has been reprimanded by Ofsted for being too “inexperienced” to… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Exclusive Colleges publish ethnicity pay data in bid to increase diversity Colleges are revealing the pay gaps between their staff’s ethnic groups in a bid to tackle under-representation in the… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Adult education Exclusive Secrecy fuels suspicions as DfE refuses to share AEB clawback evidence The government has refused to share the evidence used to justify its controversial adult education clawback plans – fuelling… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Ofsted Spielman bags two more years as Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman has been given two extra years in the role of Ofsted chief inspector, the Department for Education… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News City & Guilds fined £50K over ‘unfit’ qualifications Education giant City and Guilds is facing a £50,000 penalty from Ofqual after it was found an assignment for… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y 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 Newer 1 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 821 Older Must read 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo 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 4mo Billy Camden 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo