News Apprenticeship standard achievement rate fails to hit 60% More than two in five apprentices on standards failed to successfully complete their qualification last year. National achievement rate… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Apprenticeships Level 2 apprenticeships functional skills flexibility extended – AGAIN A flexibility that suspends the requirement for level 2 apprentices to study towards and sit a level 2 functional… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Exclusive Impact of ‘spiteful’ ESFA adult education claw back plans revealed A college has warned it will have to hand back over £4 million under the Education and Skills Funding… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Government security centre warns colleges of ‘spike’ in cyber attacks Schools and colleges have lost financial records, students’ coursework and Covid-19 testing data during a recent “spike” in cyber… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Threshold rate for college adult education under-delivery lowered – but only to 90% Colleges that deliver less than 90 per cent of their national adult education budget allocation this year face having… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Public sector apprenticeship target restated for extra year The public sector apprenticeship target is to continue for an extra year as the majority of bodies in scope… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News DfE knuckles rapped by stats watchdog over Skills Toolkit data The Office for Statistics Regulation has reprimanded the Department for Education over the data published for its new Skills… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive ‘All hell was breaking loose’: How hackers forced a mega college to close FE Week tells the inside story of the cyber attack that shut down one of Birmingham’s major colleges, and… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News ‘Long overdue’: Colleges welcome ‘nurturing’ conversations with ESFA College leaders have endorsed a move by the Education and Skills Funding Agency to rebuild relationships with annual “strategic… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Minister accused of misrepresenting new level 3 adult offer The skills minister stands accused of issuing misleading information about the new level 3 adult offer after FE Week… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Small employer apprenticeship cap on starts to ‘reset’ next month The cap on apprenticeship starts for small employers will be reset to zero next month, the Education and Skills… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Sponsored post Sponsored The Annual Revaluation of Further Education and the Enrolment Process Every year the further education sector spends an unlimited time working on Strategic Enrolment Management Plans. The focus of… IPS Software 5y IPS Software 5y Newer 1 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 829 Older Must read 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 2w Shane Chowen 2w 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo 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 6mo Billy Camden 6mo
