News ‘Bureaucratic’ process for adding courses to level 3 lifetime skills guarantee offer slammed One of the country’s largest manufacturing sectors has hit out at the “frustrating” and “bureaucratic” process of adding courses… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Covid-19 Delay to Covid-19 testing for providers branded ‘madness’ The government has failed to explain why private training providers will need to wait until the end of next… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Functional skills barrier removed for ‘eligible apprentices’ from today The government has finally reintroduced a flexibility that allows apprentices to take their end-point assessment (EPA) before their English… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Ofsted monitoring inspections paused for week of colleges’ return Ofsted will pause its remote monitoring inspections for the week beginning March 8 to allow schools and colleges to… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News GCSE and A-level exams 2021: Externally-set questions to be ‘optional’ Schools and colleges won’t be forced to use externally-set questions when determining their students’ GCSE and A-level grades this… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News ‘Pyrrhic victory’: Functional skills learners CAN receive teacher assessed grades Functional skills students can receive teacher assessed grades this year but only if it is not possible to sit… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Confirmed: How BTEC and other vocational quals will be graded in 2021 The government has today outlined its final decisions for awarding BTEC and other vocational and technical qualification (VTQ) grades… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News GCSE and A-level exams 2021: What we know so far about the government’s plans The government has confirmed its plans for replacing GCSE and A-level exams this summer, with teacher assessments due to… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Winners of the AoC Student of the Year Awards 2021 revealed The winners of this year’s Association of Colleges’ Student of the Year Awards have been revealed. Five learners from… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News IfATE launches new reports to pre-warn sector of apprenticeship standard revisions A new tool that pre-warns providers and employers when apprenticeship standards are being revised has been launched today by… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Colleges can start testing students on-site before March 8, DfE confirms Secondary schools and colleges will be allowed to start testing students on-site before March 8, the Department for Education… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News What you need to know about applying to deliver T Levels from 2023 The Department for Education has today launched the registration process to deliver its flagship T Level qualifications from 2023,… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y Newer 1 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 848 Older Must read 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 2w Jessica Hill 2w 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 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 Next 3 stories 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 4mo Shane Chowen 4mo 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 4mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 4mo News Exclusive Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels Shane Chowen 5mo Shane Chowen 5mo
