News Free recording: Latest FE sector response and requirements to coronavirus FE Week was joined by Labour’s new shadow apprenticeships minister Toby Perkins yesterday for our latest webinar on the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News ESFA reveals calculations for the furloughed apprentice wage top-up The Education and Skills Funding Agency has finally confirmed that the national minimum wage requirement for a furloughed apprentice… Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News Revealed: 576 ‘crucial’ qualifications assigned the DfE’s £400 funding uplift Almost 600 qualifications for 16 to 18 year-old students that are “crucial for the Labour market” have been chosen… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Help!: DfE to spend £10m ‘simplifying’ the digital apprenticeship service A two-year £10 million project to renovate the digital apprenticeship service as it is scaled up is being launched… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Speed read: Highlights from our webinar with Gillian Keegan FE Week was joined by apprenticeships minister Gillian Keegan on Monday for our latest webinar on the response to… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Construction is still under way – but with new rules and procedures While the government has promised £1.5 billion of new cash to colleges over this parliament to create “cutting-edge facilities”,… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News, Sponsored post Sponsored SPONSORED: Huge demand for health and social care training from public as 400,000 volunteer to support the COVID-19 fight There has been a spike in demand from individuals looking to complete online training in the wake of the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News MPs in fight to save land-based college A cross-party group of MPs is fighting to save a land-based college they fear could be closed following the… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Lawyers claim ESFA provider relief scheme ‘unlawful’ in letter to minister A high-profile QC has worked with solicitors to write to the apprenticeships minister, Gillian Keegan, arguing that the Education… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Revealed: Covid-19 hit to apprenticeship starts The dramatic impact of the coronavirus crisis on apprentice recruitment is laid bare for the first time in a… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y 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 Newer 1 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 813 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