News £100m NHS apprenticeship tender for level 2 administrators despite framework switch off The NHS is to spend up to £100 million on delivering a tailored level 2 apprenticeship for administrators. From… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News AoC calls for £3.6bn post-pandemic skills package The government should set aside an extra £3.6 billion to upskill the “764,000 people most at risk” post-Covid-19, according… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News New free digital skills qualifications given ESFA green light but Ofqual proving a barrier The government has confirmed that free digital skills qualifications for adults will finally be launched from August 1 –… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Another 18 schools and colleges named as ‘edtech demonstrators’ The government has announced another 18 schools and colleges handed up to £150,000 each to become “edtech demonstrators”. They… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Ofsted to publish paused inspection reports from next week Ofsted will begin publishing the inspection reports that were held back because of the coronavirus pandemic from next week…. Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Coronavirus covered: Coupland in conversation with FE Week FE Week was joined by Jennifer Coupland, chief executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE), during… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Exclusive Frustration builds as Ofsted refuses to inspect paused providers The indefinite pausing of Ofsted inspections could force an apprenticeship provider to make redundancies, its managing director has told… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News DfE scraps provider quality criteria in final phase of T-level roll out The requirement for colleges and other training providers to be rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted to deliver T-levels… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News T-levels: The providers selected to run courses in 2022 The names of a further 88 colleges, training providers and schools chosen to deliver T-levels in the third wave… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News T-level wobble as another four providers cancel September launch plans Four providers due to teach the first T-levels in just three months’ time have announced they will delay delivery… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Multi-million pound cut to College Collaboration Fund as DfE reopens applications The Department for Education has slashed the College Collaboration Fund (CCF) by more than a third as it reopens… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News ESFA ‘considering’ extensions to coronavirus supplier relief schemes The Education and Skills Funding Agency is “considering” reopening its Covid-19 supplier relief after the Cabinet Office announced the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 818 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 4d Jessica Hill 4d 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Billy Camden 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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