News Exclusive ESFA back-tracks after threat to challenge low apprenticeship achievement rates Two weeks after the Education and Skills Funding Agency announced they would intervene at apprenticeship providers that failed to… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Outstanding!: College group given top Ofsted marks across the board Chichester College Group has become the second general further education college to be rated ‘outstanding’ under Ofsted’s new inspection… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Free recording: Latest FE policy response to Covid-19 outbreak The third webcast in FE Week’s series – further education sector’s response and requirements to the coronavirus pandemic –… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News DfE clarifies which college students ‘should’ receive face to face delivery from 1 June First year students on all two-year 16 to 19 vocational study programmes, such as BTECs, should start returning to… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News DfE announces first year sixth form students could be returning to college as soon as 1 June Colleges have been asked to begin face to face teaching with students currently in their first year of sixth… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Feature, News What does an inspectorate do when it can’t inspect? Six weeks after lockdown and the sudden end of inspections, and five weeks after Ofsted mooted a mass redeployment… JL Dutaut 5y JL Dutaut 5y News Adult education charity rescued by council A long-running adult education charity has been saved from going under after a local council agreed to a £100,000… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Coronavirus: College to build extra classrooms for anticipated spike in student numbers A sixth-form has brought forward plans to build extra temporary classrooms as colleges across the country brace themselves for… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Exclusive Frameworks set for stay of execution The government is considering a U-turn on its planned date to switch off old-style apprenticeship frameworks as providers raise… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive ESFA seeks legal advice in face of unpublished Ofsted reports The Education and Skills Funding Agency is taking legal advice on whether it can intervene at new providers before… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Government to take ownership of colleges The government is working on a plan to bring colleges in England back into public ownership, FE Week understands…. Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News DfE relaxes traineeship rules The Department for Education has relaxed its requirement for students on traineeship programmes to record 100 hours of work… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 804 Older Must read 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 3w Anviksha Patel 3w 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 1mo Josh Mellor 1mo Next 3 stories Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps Exclusive Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden and Frances Read 2mo Apprenticeships Entrepreneur chased for millions after apprenticeship collapse ESFA uncovers ‘fake’ taxi apprentices as liquidator reveals intercompany payments days after firm decided to shut Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Adult education Exclusive Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo
