News Exclusive FE’s fight to tackle hate crime Hate crimes in colleges have almost tripled in four years as leaders seek to raise awareness in light of… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Exclusive Terminated: ESFA bin apprenticeship providers for low achievement rates Apprenticeship providers have been left shocked after the Education and Skills Funding Agency ignored their own coronavirus deferral policy… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Labour ‘concerned’ and brand promise of an apprenticeship guarantee a ‘deception’ Labour’s shadow apprenticeships minister has branded the prime minister’s “apprenticeship guarantee” proposal a “deception”. Toby Perkins told FE Week… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Winners of the AoC Beacon Awards 2020 announced Top colleges across the country are celebrating receiving honours in the Association of Colleges’ Beacon Awards 2019-20. The winners… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Revealed: Apprenticeship training providers paid biggest slice of levy funds The Education and Skills Funding Agency has for the first time revealed the training providers that have been paid… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News National student photography exhibition captures life of sixth form college learners during lockdown An online photography exhibition to showcase the life of sixth form college students during lockdown has been launched by… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Nearly half all qualifications assigned new estimated grade process, new Ofqual list reveals The results for nearly half of all vocational and technical qualifications planned for certifications this summer will be based… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Adult apprentices CAN return for face-to-face contact from 15 June, says DfE The government has confirmed that colleges and training providers can begin face-to-face contact with adult apprentices from 15 June,… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Redundancies planned at massive apprenticeships provider to government A huge training provider that delivers hundreds of apprenticeships for the civil service is planning to make major redundancies…. Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Free recording: Latest FE policy response and requirements to Covid-19 outbreak The sixth webcast in FE Week’s series – further education sector’s response and requirements to coronavirus pandemic – was… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News What do we need to know? Apprenticeship quango surveys employers The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has launched an online survey to find out what impact coronavirus has… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive DfE to tackle ‘fake news’ with its own rapid rebuttal unit The Department for Education is setting up its own “rapid rebuttal unit” to tackle so-called “fake news” in the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 813 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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
