News Exclusive 300 redundancies planned at England’s largest apprenticeship provider England’s largest apprenticeship provider is planning to slash around 300 jobs as it battles with “significantly reduced” learner numbers… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y AEB ESFA ‘withdraws’ AEB funding clawback plans following sector backlash The Education and Skills Funding Agency has “withdrawn” plans to clawback this year’s unspent adult education budget grant funding… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Second round of ESFA Covid-19 supplier relief attracts 112 provider bids Just 112 providers applied for the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s second Covid-19 supplier relief scheme – and 35… Simon Kay 5y Simon Kay 5y News ESFA plan traineeship funding tender despite history of tendering woes The Education and Skills Funding Agency is to launch a tender to “quickly” widen the provider base for adult… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Ofqual wants admissions ‘flexibility’ for students with ‘one or two lower grades’ Post-16 providers have been urged to “offer greater flexibility” in admission decisions to ensure students who get “one or… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News ESFA reveals spending and audit rules for £96m 16-19 Covid tutoring fund Colleges and other 16 to 19 providers will be paid at least an additional £150 per disadvantaged learner next… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Revealed: The 20 college partnerships to share the £5.4m College Collaboration Fund Twenty college partnerships will receive grants through a fund designed to develop greater collaboration across the sector, the government… Simon Kay 5y Simon Kay 5y News Concern over T-level industry placements rises as employers pull out Employers are cancelling T-level industry placements and providers are finding it increasingly challenging to find alternatives, new research has… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Another two providers delay T-level launch plans Two more providers due to teach the first T-levels in just two months’ time have delayed delivery for at… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Nine things we learned from the ESFA’s 2019-20 annual report and accounts The Education and Skills Funding Agency has this afternoon published its annual report and accounts for 2019-20, revealing college… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Ofqual predicts ‘slightly better’ GCSE and A-level results, but teacher grades will need hauling down Teacher-assessed grades will have to be hauled down by up to 12 percentage points this year so results are… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News, Opinion Pearson and Amazon Web Services develop first Cloud Computing BTEC Higher National qualifications to help address the cloud computing skills gap Pearson is really pleased to announce, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), the development of the first… Billy Camden 5y Gary Gates 5y Newer 1 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 808 Older Must read 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 4d Jessica Hill 4d 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 3w Billy Camden 3w 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 4w Anviksha Patel 4w Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 2mo Josh Mellor 2mo
