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 News Exclusive For sale! Land of insolvent college goes on the market for £580K England’s first college to be put through the government’s insolvency regime is selling off a huge parcel of land,… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Ofsted Exclusive Provider challenges Ofsted for ‘factually incorrect’ report A care worker apprenticeship provider is challenging a damaging Ofsted report and accused inspectors of lacking the knowledge to… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Apprenticeships Exclusive ESFA to select providers for reapplication to apprenticeships register in random order Providers on the apprenticeships register will be “randomly selected” to reapply in different phases over the next year, the… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Exclusive National college closes without ever having opened One of the government’s once-vaunted national colleges is being wound up – without ever opening, FE Week can reveal…. Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Exclusive Skills Bill: DfE accused of ‘power-grab’ over colleges The much-heralded Skills Bill contains a Department for Education “power-grab” and will “fail to meet the scale of the… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News £250m of apprenticeship funding went back to Treasury in 2020-21 Apprenticeship funding to the tune of £250 million was handed back to the Treasury in 2020-21, FE Week can… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Apprenticeships Exclusive ‘Middle-class grab’ on apprenticeships confirmed by new analysis The apprenticeship reforms are increasingly disadvantaging people from low-income areas, new FE Week analysis has revealed. Since the new-style… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Right2Learn campaign to host inaugural conference tonight A new campaign that argues for a lifelong statutory right to fully funded learning for every adult is holding… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Newer 1 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 829 Older Must read Qualifications Exclusive 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 2w Shane Chowen 2w Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo 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 6mo Billy Camden 6mo
