News

Ofsted monitoring inspections paused for week of colleges’ return

Ofsted will pause its remote monitoring inspections for the week beginning March 8 to allow schools and colleges to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

GCSE and A-level exams 2021: Externally-set questions to be ‘optional’

Schools and colleges won’t be forced to use externally-set questions when determining their students’ GCSE and A-level grades this…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

‘Pyrrhic victory’: Functional skills learners CAN receive teacher assessed grades

Functional skills students can receive teacher assessed grades this year but only if it is not possible to sit…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Confirmed: How BTEC and other vocational quals will be graded in 2021

The government has today outlined its final decisions for awarding BTEC and other vocational and technical qualification (VTQ) grades…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

GCSE and A-level exams 2021: What we know so far about the government’s plans

The government has confirmed its plans for replacing GCSE and A-level exams this summer, with teacher assessments due to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Winners of the AoC Student of the Year Awards 2021 revealed

The winners of this year’s Association of Colleges’ Student of the Year Awards have been revealed. Five learners from…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon


News

IfATE launches new reports to pre-warn sector of apprenticeship standard revisions

A new tool that pre-warns providers and employers when apprenticeship standards are being revised has been launched today by…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Colleges can start testing students on-site before March 8, DfE confirms

Secondary schools and colleges will be allowed to start testing students on-site before March 8, the Department for Education…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

What you need to know about applying to deliver T Levels from 2023

The Department for Education has today launched the registration process to deliver its flagship T Level qualifications from 2023,…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Covid-19

Extra £102m to extend 16-19 Covid tuition fund announced

The government has set aside an additional £102 million to extend the 16 to 19 tuition fund for an…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

March 8 reopening guidance: Staff and students ‘advised’ to wear face coverings in classroom

Staff and students in FE providers have been advised by the Department for Education to wear face coverings in…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Covid-19

College students to receive three Covid tests on site upon return

College students will have four rapid Covid tests in the first two weeks of returning to the classroom from…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

Long read, Prison education

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
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, FE Commissioner

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel
T Levels

NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure

Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education, ITPs

Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers

Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor