News Apprenticeship quango launches learner satisfaction survey The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has today launched a new apprentice satisfaction survey. It comes a week… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News ESFA provider relief application deadline extended The deadline for providers to submit bids for supplier relief from the Education and Skills Funding Agency has been… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News DfE will now ‘replace’ and ‘repurpose’ the cancelled monthly apprenticeship statistics The Department for Education appears to have backtracked on a decision to scrap monthly apprenticeship data releases by now… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Plans to scrap MBA apprenticeship delayed until possibly 2021 Government plans to axe the controversial MBA qualification from the level 7 senior leader apprenticeship have been put on… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Monthly apprenticeships update: February starts fall 11% Apprenticeship starts for the month of February 2020 fell 11 per cent on the previous year, figures published this… Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News ESFA will individually ‘challenge’ hundreds of apprenticeship providers after poor achievement rates Providers that failed to meet the minimum standard for apprenticeship achievement rates last year will be informed next week… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Education secretary quizzed by MPs on timing and scope of coronavirus supplier relief The education secretary today dodged an MP’s question about his department’s delay in launching supplier relief support for training… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Minister explains ‘anomaly’ leaving majority of apprenticeships ineligible for ESFA supplier relief The majority of apprenticeship providers are not eligible for supplier relief from the Department for Education because of the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News ‘Staggering’: DfE to stop the monthly publication of apprenticeship starts The Department for Education has been criticised for its “staggering” decision to scrap all in-year apprenticeship data releases. Officials… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News DfE launches ‘Skills Toolkit’ to signpost to free online courses The Department for Education has launched a web page that signposts people to free courses that can develop their… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Free recording: In conversation with apprenticeships minister Gillian Keegan FE Week was joined by apprenticeships minister Gillian Keegan this afternoon for our latest webinar on the response to… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Ofsted’s 1,700 staff ‘considerably under occupied’ admits chief inspector, but available to volunteer A “considerable number” of Ofsted’s 1,700 staff are under occupied despite offering themselves up as Covid-19 response volunteers, the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 808 Older Must read 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 5d Jessica Hill 5d 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 3w Billy Camden 3w 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 4w Anviksha Patel 4w Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 2mo Josh Mellor 2mo