Covid-19

Revealed: Government plans to expand 16-19 Covid tuition fund

The government has published plans to expand the 16-19 Tuition Fund as part of a £1.4 billion package of…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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UAL Awarding Body: an adaptable and supportive community

As we close in on summer results, let’s take some lessons from the adaptability of creative students and educators,…

UAL Awarding Body
UAL Awarding Body
Land-based, Long read

Land-based colleges lose millions in commercial income

From the drop in the price of cream to zero weddings, the land-based colleges sector has lost millions of…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Apprenticeships

How the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education is growing in stature

The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education is “looking forward to playing an even bigger role” following the publication…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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
Fraser Whieldon
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
Fraser Whieldon


News

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
Fraser Whieldon
Adult education

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
Billy Camden
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
Fraser Whieldon
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
Fraser Whieldon
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
Fraser Whieldon
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
Billy Camden

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