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 5y Billy Camden 5y 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 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y 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 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y 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 5y Billy Camden 5y 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 5y Billy Camden 5y T Levels Two big exam board winners in third wave of T Levels The awarding organisations that will develop, deliver and award the six T Levels being rolled out from 2022 are… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Mergers drag down college Ofsted grades Ofsted inspection results for the college sector at the end of last year fell for the first time in… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Tripling traineeships: Tender to launch next week as clock ticks on £111m boost A hotly-anticipated application process to widen the provider-base for 19 to 24 traineeships will finally be launched next week…. Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Will England take inspiration from Germany’s chambers of commerce? The government’s forthcoming FE white paper could hand the British Chambers of Commerce key influencing powers over funding and… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Exclusive Apprentices stuck in limbo as Covid hits functional skills tests Thousands of apprentices are “stuck in limbo” as awarding bodies struggle to adapt their functional skills assessments in the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Education secretary makes ‘guarantee’ T Levels will be ‘available’ to adults in future T Levels will be an option for adults of any age to study as part of the government’s new… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Unions call for substantial college staff pay increase following £400m boost Trade unions have called for a “significant” pay rise for college staff this year, after the government pumped an extra… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y Newer 1 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 818 Older Must read 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 2d Jessica Hill 2d 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 Next 3 stories 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 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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
