News All apprenticeship providers told to reapply to RoATP yet again All providers on the government’s register of apprenticeship training providers (RoATP) will need to reapply yet again over the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News NAW 2021 | FE White paper & the next phase of apprenticeship reform (recording) Yesterday afternoon a group of sector leaders and policymakers took part in an FE Week roundtable to mark National… Shane Mann 5y Shane Mann 5y News Shadow education secretary celebrates National Apprenticeship Week with ‘top class’ virtual tour Shadow education secretary Kate Green has made her first visit, virtually, to an independent training provider to celebrate National… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y Skills reform Williamson ‘strongly encourages’ colleges to embrace lifetime skills guarantee level 3 offer The education secretary has urged colleges to embrace the new level 3 offer under the lifetime skills guarantee as… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Association of Colleges Beacon Award 2021 winners announced Eleven colleges that showcase “the best and most innovative practice” in the sector have been honoured at the Association… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News ESFA finally launches £73m adult education budget tender The long-awaited national adult education budget tender has been launched by the Education and Skills Funding Agency. Bids for… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Pace of external quality assurance transferring to Ofqual slows to a crawl Providers will be stuck paying for external quality assurance (EQA) for even longer than planned, as the process of… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Turing Scheme to open for bids next month Bids for the UK’s new £110 million Turing Scheme will open to universities, FE providers and schools next month…. Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Sponsored post Sponsored What does inclusivity in education look like? After this last year, more people are aware that just because we’re in this together, doesn’t mean we all… Cognassist 5y Cognassist 5y Skills reform Exclusive FE recruitment drive ‘pipedream’ without pay rises Government aspirations to bolster the FE workforce “will be nothing more than a pipedream” unless colleges are given funding… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Exclusive Talks under way on threshold rate for college adult education under-delivery Intense negotiations are taking place within government to determine the extent to which colleges will again be allowed to… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Exclusive Providers complain of ‘impossible timelines’ for lifetime skills guarantee offer Training providers are “disappointed”, “extremely frustrated” and predict a “disjointed and likely stuttering start” to the government’s lifetime skills… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 821 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
