News City & Guilds fined £50K over ‘unfit’ qualifications Education giant City and Guilds is facing a £50,000 penalty from Ofqual after it was found an assignment for… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Boost to employer cash incentives for T Level industry placements The government has temporarily upped the cash incentives for employers running T Level industry placements to £1,000. It comes… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Revealed: Top 10 highest paid college leaders in 2019/20 The highest paid college principals and chief executives in 2019/20 have been revealed by the Education and Skills Funding… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News HE admissions service to ‘act as a digital Baker Clause’ UCAS has pledged to act as a “digital Baker Clause” and reform its service to be “as strong for… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Prison education: 5 things we learned from today’s education committee hearing The Commons’ education select committee heard from expert witnesses and two sector leaders today as part of its ongoing… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y Ofsted Ofsted finds apprentices without jobs at provider Ofsted has chastised an online training provider after finding cases where, “in contrast to the records held”, apprentices did… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive College suspends principal just two months before merger A college being forced into a merger after an audit revealed a £5.35 million over-claim has now suspended its… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Exclusive For sale! Land of insolvent college goes on the market for £580K England’s first college to be put through the government’s insolvency regime is selling off a huge parcel of land,… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y Ofsted Exclusive Provider challenges Ofsted for ‘factually incorrect’ report A care worker apprenticeship provider is challenging a damaging Ofsted report and accused inspectors of lacking the knowledge to… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y Apprenticeships Exclusive ESFA to select providers for reapplication to apprenticeships register in random order Providers on the apprenticeships register will be “randomly selected” to reapply in different phases over the next year, the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive National college closes without ever having opened One of the government’s once-vaunted national colleges is being wound up – without ever opening, FE Week can reveal…. Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Exclusive Skills Bill: DfE accused of ‘power-grab’ over colleges The much-heralded Skills Bill contains a Department for Education “power-grab” and will “fail to meet the scale of the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 851 Older Must read Colleges, Politics Exclusive Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’ The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords… Jessica Hill 2w Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund 2w Colleges, Long read Investigation Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,… Jessica Hill 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo Colleges, Long read Exclusive Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo Next 3 stories Young people Long read Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals Anviksha Patel 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo News Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the… Shane Chowen 5mo Shane Chowen 5mo Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 5mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 5mo