News Poor performing new provider hoping for apprenticeships lifeline A new apprenticeship provider blames the impact of Covid for a second poor Ofsted report and is hoping to… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Revealed: The FE winners honoured in the 2020 Pearson Teaching Awards A college leader has scooped a prestigious lifetime achievement award at the Pearson Teaching Awards for his transformational work…. Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News DfE offer further help to cash-strapped colleges this term New funding to help colleges with a poor cash position to cover the costs of staff absences incurred between… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News ESFA director wants ‘more power’ as college ownership battle rages Top civil servants have inadvertently exposed a rift at the top of the Department for Education over the future… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Exclusive Functional skills ‘portfolio’ solution proposed to lift 30,000 apprentices out of limbo Talks are under way to replace functional skills exams with “portfolio evidence grading” for apprentices who are unable to… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Apprenticeships register not reopening until April at the earliest Applications to the government’s register of apprenticeship training providers will not reopen until at least April 2021. And when… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Seven things we learned from the ESFA’s latest apprenticeships data release New-look apprenticeship and traineeship statistics were published by the Education and Skills Funding Agency today and captured final year-end… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News FE white paper pushed back to 2021, ESFA director suggests The much-anticipated FE white paper might not appear until next year, the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s chief executive has revealed. … Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Top official reveals ‘gut wrenching’ £6m spent on accountancy fees to dissolve college The Department for Education has revealed £6 million was spent on administrators’ fees alone for the two college insolvencies,… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News 64 colleges running out of cash which is ‘more than we thought’ admits official Sixty-four colleges are at risk of running out of cash, a top ESFA director has said, admitting the number of colleges… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Official figures reveal take up of adult education courses halved during lockdown The number of enrolments onto adult education courses in the months following lockdown dropped by half compared to the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Winners of the National Apprenticeship Awards 2020 announced “Outstanding” employers and individuals have been recognised at this year’s National Apprenticeship Awards – including a Great Ormond Street… Simon Kay 5y Simon Kay 5y Newer 1 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 851 Older Must read Colleges, Politics Exclusive Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’ The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords… Jessica Hill 2w Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund 2w Colleges, Long read Investigation Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,… Jessica Hill 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo Colleges, Long read Exclusive Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo Next 3 stories Young people Long read Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals Anviksha Patel 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo News Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the… Shane Chowen 5mo Shane Chowen 5mo Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 5mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 5mo