News AoC calls for adult funding boost ahead of spending review Funding rates for adult learners must be raised to the same level as 16 to 19-year-olds to ensure courses… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News WorldSkills: UK beats China in first virtual pressure test The UK’s elite squad of skilled young people in electronics has beaten their Chinese counterparts in this country’s first… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Exclusive DfE hiring spree for Covid response A huge recruitment drive has been launched at the Department for Education to aid its response to Covid-19, with… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Exclusive Adult education budget tender delayed again An upcoming tender for the national adult education budget has been delayed – again. The Education and Skills Funding… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Exclusive ESFA to audit university apprenticeships, from April Universities that deliver apprenticeships will be subject to Education and Skills Funding Agency funding audits for the first time… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Exclusive Revealed: The sectors excluded from PM’s new ‘lifetime skills guarantee’ Major parts of the economy will see level 3 qualifications in their sector excluded from the new Lifetime Skills… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News MPs launch inquiry into prison education A new inquiry into the challenges faced in prison education has been launched by the parliamentary education select committee…. Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News ESFA reveals major cashflow problems at mega-college in Nottingham A mega-college in Nottingham has been placed in formal FE Commissioner intervention after hitting “serious cashflow pressures”. The Education… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News Gavin Williamson’s speech on lifting FE’s ‘potential’ through the white paper: The full text The education secretary has promised that the imminent FE white paper will bring an “end to getting a qualification… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News College commission calls on DfE to force principals into multi-academy trust style accountability structures New legislation should force all colleges to be part of “networks” that could follow similar accountability structures as multi-academy… Billy Camden 4y Billy Camden 4y News London college agrees merger after being put at ‘significant risk’ A London college which was put at “significant risk” by failures in financial management and control is seeking to… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y News Exclusive Government set to create ‘college business centres’ New college “business centres” will be launched by the government in an effort to hand employers greater influence over… Fraser Whieldon 4y Fraser Whieldon 4y Newer 1 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 804 Older Must read 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 3w Anviksha Patel 3w T Levels NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 1mo Josh Mellor 1mo Next 3 stories Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps Exclusive Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden and Frances Read 2mo Apprenticeships Entrepreneur chased for millions after apprenticeship collapse ESFA uncovers ‘fake’ taxi apprentices as liquidator reveals intercompany payments days after firm decided to shut Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Adult education Exclusive Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo
