News

Applications open for new £18m higher technical qualifications expansion fund

Colleges and universities are being invited to bid for a slice of a new £18 million fund to expand…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

20,000 students ‘shocked’ as UCAS glitch rejects university offers

Tens of thousands of students faced more stress this morning as a glitch in UCAS’s system automatically rejected their…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Ofsted

Colleges must share sexual abuse records for future Ofsted inspections

Colleges will have to share their records and analysis of sexual abuse when Ofsted comes knocking in the future….

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Teacher-assessed qualifications to be excluded from achievement rates – again

Provider-level qualification achievement rates (QARs) will include only some courses in 2020/21, the Education and Skills Funding Agency has…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Government should fund apprentice wages for SMEs, says Halfon

The government should pay apprentice wages and fund their full cost of training “for at least a year” if…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Universal credit rules hold people back from training, warns report

Universal credit rules are excluding people from training and must be scrapped if the government is serious about its…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


Apprenticeships

Keegan stands firm on keeping levy funding for apprenticeships

The skills minister has restated her stance that apprenticeship levy funding should only be used for apprenticeships, insisting it…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Government careers agency bemoans lack of Baker Clause compliance

The head of the government’s careers quango has bemoaned how independent providers have not been given enough access to…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

AELP conference to warn against new ‘costly’ list of independent training providers

Training providers will this week warn against new legislation in the Skills Bill that they fear will impose “costly…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Senior mental health lead training: 5 things you need to know

Up to two-thirds of schools and colleges will have to wait until at least next spring to hear if…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Sir Kevan Collins resigns as government education recovery tsar

The government’s education recovery commissioner Sir Kevan Collins has offered his resignation after ministers allocated just £1.4 billion in…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Prison educators plan further strikes in health and safety dispute

Another wave of strike action by educators has been announced at 49 prisons and young offenders’ institutions.  The University…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon

Must read

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
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
Jessica Hill
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