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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
Fraser Whieldon
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
Billy Camden
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
Billy Camden
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
Billy Camden
News

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
Fraser Whieldon
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
Billy Camden


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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…

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Skills reform

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
Fraser Whieldon
News

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
Fraser Whieldon
News

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
Billy Camden
News

Revealed: ESFA investigation into fastest growing apprenticeship provider

England’s fastest growing apprenticeship provider is under investigation by the Education and Skills Funding Agency and faces going bust,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

ESFA college threshold for more in-year 16-18 cash drops to as low as an extra 35 students

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has today revealed a new in-year growth funding calculation for 16 to 18-year-olds…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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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
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
Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

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
Jessica Hill