Careers, Employment MPs to examine job centres’ new skills and careers role The government hopes integrating careers advice into job centres will boost employment Josh Mellor 5mo Josh Mellor 5mo Devolution, DfE Exclusive Boris’s rushed retraining scheme created huge underspend Most of the money has been quietly returned to the Treasury Josh Mellor 5mo Josh Mellor 5mo Skills bootcamps Recruitment ban as bootcamp firm Redstone probed ITP paid nearly £3 million in bootcamps funding from mayoral combined authorities Anviksha Patel 5mo Anviksha Patel 5mo Colleges NCG hit with £9m clawback bill after ESFA battle But finances continue to be strong while Ofsted delivered another ‘good’ judgment this month Billy Camden 5mo Billy Camden 5mo T Levels Exclusive IfATE: Contract delays won’t derail gen 2 health and science T Levels Fresh awarding body licenses were due to be awarded in October Shane Chowen 5mo Shane Chowen 5mo Colleges, Ofsted ‘Life changing’ West Thames College judged ‘outstanding’ The feat means 1 in 10 GFE colleges now hold the watchdog’s highest grade Billy Camden 5mo Billy Camden 5mo Colleges Legrave: College interventions fall as support take-up rises Number of colleges in intervention reduced to 9 Shane Chowen 5mo Shane Chowen 5mo Colleges, Ofsted Double Ofsted ‘outstanding’ for Merseyside colleges A Catholic sixth form college and a general FE college in the area were awarded the judgment today FE Week Reporter 5mo FE Week Reporter 5mo Adult education, Ofsted Top Ofsted marks for south Yorkshire council’s adult education Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council upgraded for inspiring out of work people towards employment Anviksha Patel 5mo Anviksha Patel 5mo Skills reform Jennifer Coupland to leave IfATE next month ahead of closure She has led the apprenticeships and technical education quango for the past 5 years Billy Camden 5mo Billy Camden 5mo Ofsted Somerset college upgraded to Ofsted ‘outstanding’ Inspectors praised Bridgwater & Taunton College for commitment to creating ‘diverse and inspiring’ curriculum Anviksha Patel 5mo Anviksha Patel 5mo Employment, Training Providers Exclusive SWAPs scheme for jobless achieves 40% success rate The data offers a statistical view of the scheme’s impact for the first time Josh Mellor 5mo Josh Mellor 5mo Newer 1 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 816 Older 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 3w Jessica Hill 3w 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
