News Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021: Who received what in FE? The next FE commissioner and the author of the landmark post-18 education review are among those receiving gongs in… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News ITPs will be included in catch-up plans, DfE confirms Independent training providers can rest assured they will be eligible for the government’s latest catch-up funding, it has been… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Exclusive Board member quits in protest over sink or swim tech venture at Capital City College Group Two governors have resigned and union tension has flared at one of England’s largest college groups after it announced… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Exclusive Uproar as DfE researchers to ban jobless bootcamp applicants…at random Training providers have been left livid and refusing to sign contracts after the Department for Education revealed their researchers… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y News Exclusive 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Billy Camden 4y 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 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y 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 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Newer 1 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 832 Older Must read 16-19 Long read Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals Anviksha Patel 5d Anviksha Patel 5d News Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the… Shane Chowen 2w Shane Chowen 2w Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 3w Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 3w Next 3 stories 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo