News

Popular apprenticeship scrapped by government could be revived

Plans are afoot to revive the level 2 business administration apprenticeship under a new name, FE Week can reveal….

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

DfE launches tender for 8 new Institutes of Technology

A competition to create the next wave of Institutes of Technology has been launched by the education secretary Gavin…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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IPS Ltd supporting Further Education technologies move into the 21st Century

Established for over 11 years, IPS Ltd has provided tailored integrated solutions for a range of industry sectors including…

IPS Software
IPS Software
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Former Ofqual director planning new FE membership body

A former technical qualifications director at the exams watchdog has signalled intention to establish another end-point assessment organisation (EPAO)…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Traineeships tender finally launched but with short deadline

Training providers have been given less than three weeks to bid in the government’s much-anticipated tender for 19 to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Young people hit hardest in full-year apprenticeship figures

Apprenticeship starts for the whole of 2019/20 fell 18 per cent on the previous academic year, new figures show….

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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F1 in Schools zoom to success with innovative 2020 UK National Finals event

For the first time in the 20-year history of F1 in Schools National Finals events, teams vying to become…

F1 in Schools
F1 in Schools
News

DfE broke student data protection laws, damning ICO audit reveals

The Department for Education broke data protection laws in the way it handles student data, the information watchdog has…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

EuroSkills 2020 postponed ‘indefinitely’ due to Covid-19

The EuroSkills 2020 competition, in which the UK was due to compete in January, has been postponed indefinitely due…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

One government department failed to recruit a single apprentice in 2019-20

Not a single apprentice started work at the Department for International Development in 2019-20. That’s according to the latest…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

ESFA to launch £80m adult education budget tender

The Department for Education is gearing up to launch a new £80 million tender for the national adult education…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Five things we learned from the IfATE’s 2019-20 accounts

The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has today published its annual accounts for 2019-20, revealing a substantial pay…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

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
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, FE Commissioner

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel