News Extra £101m for school and college leavers to return for a third year The government has pledged £101 million to give all 18 to 19 year olds who are struggling to find… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Chancellor announces ‘brand-new bonus for businesses to hire apprentices’ Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a “brand new bonus” for employers to hire apprentices over the next six months…. Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News DfE scraps T-level subject after employers express ‘viability and deliverability concerns’ The rollout of T-levels has taken another slip after the government canned a subject and delayed the start of… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News FE Commissioner tells MPs he thinks dozens of colleges could run out of cash next year There are 30 to 40 colleges “at risk of running out of cash” following the coronavirus crisis, the FE… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Chancellor expected to reveal sliding scale of employer cash incentives to boost apprenticeships The chancellor is set to announce a sliding scale of cash incentives for employers to take on both young… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y 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 Newer 1 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 821 Older Must read Colleges, Long read 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Billy Camden 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo