News ESFA waters down apprenticeship oversight for new providers The Education and Skills Funding Agency has softened its policy on allowing paused providers to start recruiting again. Since… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News College intervention regime resumes as AoC calls for post-Covid FE Commissioner ‘rethink’ The Association of Colleges is calling for a post-Covid-19 “rethink” of the sector’s intervention regime as the FE Commissioner… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Government urged to let adults return to class before September FE sector membership bodies have joined forces to urge the education secretary to let adults return to training before… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Plan to triple traineeships with £111m to include £1,000 employer ‘bonus’ The chancellor is expected to announce on Wednesday a £1,000 employer incentive funded from an injection of £111 million… Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News Locked-up and locked-down: how prison education has fared during Covid-19 FE Week takes a look at how prison education has adapted after face-to-face teaching was suspended following the Covid-19… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Ofsted to resume visits in September with published reports but no grades Ofsted will start visiting colleges and training providers again from September – with letters about what the inspectors found… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Ofsted watch: Colleges see top results from last drop of Ofsted reports until 2021 General FE colleges received a string of positive results, including a grade one, in June from the last drop… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Speed read: New rules for subcontracting starting from 2020/21 The Education and Skills Funding Agency has set out the measures it will take to “significantly” reduce subcontracting in… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News DfE to pay employers £750 for every T-level industry placement Employers will be offered cash incentives of up to £750 per student on a T-level industry placement from September,… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Provider shuts its doors to hundreds of young engineering apprentices A training provider has laid off all 30 staff and shut its door to hundreds of young engineering apprentices,… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Greater London Authority admin for adult education rises to nearly £5m The cost of managing and administering the adult education budget for the Greater London Authority has shot up to… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News From Saturday adults can go to the pub but not to college. Could that change before September? The Department for Education has revealed it is considering allowing adult learners to return to college before September ahead of the full re-opening… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y Newer 1 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 813 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 1w Jessica Hill 1w 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
