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
Fraser Whieldon
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
Fraser Whieldon
News

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
Fraser Whieldon
News

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
Billy Camden
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

Must read

16-19

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
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