News New provider monitoring visits back on for March 15 New provider monitoring visits will resume from March 15 – and they will be conducted face-to-face, Ofsted has confirmed…. Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News ‘Flexi-job’ apprenticeships: What are they and how will they work? Several industries where project-based employment is the norm have struggled more than most to comply with the 12-month minimum… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Covid-19 Exclusive Williamson defends independent provider Covid-19 testing ‘madness’ The education secretary has defended the controversial delay in distributing Covid-19 testing kits to independent training providers. In an… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Exclusive Skills bootcamps ‘counter-intuitive’ to long-term FE simplification, top civil servant admits Pilot schemes, such as skills bootcamps, are “counter-intuitive” to the Department for Education’s long-term goal of simplifying the FE… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Skills reform Exclusive Intervention regime WILL include college failure to comply with local skills improvement plans New legislation will enable the education secretary to intervene where colleges refuse to deliver courses decided through local skills… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Festival of Education goes virtual for 2021 This year’s Festival of Education will take place online and will be free to watch. It was hoped that… Shane Mann 4y Shane Mann 4y News GCSE and A-level grades 2021: ‘I will back you all the way’, Williamson says to teachers The education secretary has pledged to back teachers “all the way” in their efforts to award GCSE and A-level… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Exclusive Colleges and training providers in line for £35m slice of the Turing Scheme Around a third of the funding pot set aside for the Turing Scheme will go to further education providers,… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News ESFA announces new subcontracting cap The volume of subcontracted training will be capped at 25 per cent for providers from next year – but… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Sponsored post Sponsored When best-in-class tech meets best-in-class accreditation Irrespective of the scale of the educational institution, there’s always a case for improving efficiencies and delivering more effective… NOCN 4y NOCN 4y News FE providers to receive free batch of face masks to aid reopening FE providers will each receive up to 7,500 face masks from government for free as they reopen to more… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Telecoms firms extend free data offer to FE students Telecoms companies have extended their free data offer to young and disadvantaged students in further education just as they… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y Newer 1 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 821 Older Must read 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Billy Camden 4mo Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe Anviksha Patel 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo Colleges Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying… Anviksha Patel 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo