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Revealed: DfE publishes FE Covid guidance for November lockdown

Colleges and training providers should continue to deliver education for 16 to 19-year-olds on site during the new national…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Winners of the 2020 Festival of Learning awards announced

A mother bullied out of school aged 13, and an agency which fights serious and organised crime nationwide are among…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Highbury College appoints permanent chair as merger option explored

A college that has been led by a troubleshooting interim chair for almost a year has appointed a permanent…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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WorldSkills competitions in China and France postponed by a year

The next two WorldSkills competitions, set to take place in Shanghai in China in 2021 and Lyon in France…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Eight more T Level qualifications put out to tender

Awarding organisations are being sought to develop T Levels in areas such as media, animal care, and hair and…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Fears growing number of 16-19s will stretch budgets this year

Fears are growing that the government’s FE funding boost for this year will not be sufficient to cover an…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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Ofsted ‘visits’ to go online during national lockdown

Ofsted has confirmed it will undertake school and FE provider visits “remotely” during the national lockdown. In a Twitter…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Devolve greater skills funding powers for Covid-19 recovery, government urged

The government has been urged to devolve more skills funding to mayoral combined authorities to allow them to develop…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

New Careers and Enterprise Company CEO named

The founder and headteacher of a “nationally recognised” school in east London is the new chief executive of the…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Revealed: The 68 apprenticeship standards to be overseen by Ofqual from November

The 68 apprenticeship standards which will have the quality assurance of end-point assessments transferred from the Institute of Apprenticeships…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Independent Commission on the College of the Future releases final UK-wide report

The government should introduce a duty on colleges to deliver an education offer aligned to employer needs, a commission…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Colleges applying for bailouts will NOT be automatically placed in formal intervention, DfE says

Colleges which apply for government bailouts will not automatically fall into formal intervention from now on, the Department for…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon

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Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

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
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, 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
Jessica Hill
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