News PM ‘will look at the idea’ of offering an ‘apprenticeships guarantee’ The prime minister has said he will “look at the idea” of giving young people aged 16 to 25… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News ESFA subcontracting consultation response pushed back to June The government’s response to a consultation that outlined plans to overhaul subcontracting rules in further education has been delayed… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Free recording: Latest FE policy response and requirements to Covid-19 outbreak The latest webcast in FE Week’s series – further education sector’s response and requirements to the coronavirus pandemic –… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Feature, News Incorporation: The end of an experiment or the end of a myth? Ministers are considering taking colleges back into government control, as revealed last week in these pages. But, Jess Staufenberg… Jess Staufenberg 5y Jess Staufenberg 5y News Exclusive Milton slams lack of ‘joined-up thinking’ that led to college bailouts A former skills minster has described the “nonsense” of her colleagues setting up schools that competed with the struggling… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Boris reveals college face-to-face plans must be delayed until 15 June at earliest The prime minister has unexpectedly announced a two week delay to when colleges can begin their wider reopening of… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Union blasts college redundancy plans during coronavirus crisis as “unnecessary and unfair” A large general FE college has announced its seventh round of job cuts in six years. Blackburn College has… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Ofqual publish final plans for exam alternatives this summer This afternoon, as promised, Ofqual has published final details for their “exceptional arrangements for awarding qualifications this summer”. Click… Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News Exclusive Exam boards seeking more than £16 million from DfE for Covid flexibility costs A “formal” request for more than £16 million to be “reimbursed” has been submitted by awarding organisations (AOs) to… Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News Second college merger postponed due to Covid-19 A merger involving a college that previously warned it was dependent upon the move for survival has been delayed… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Adult education Exclusive ESFA rejects one-third of all AEB and non-levy supplier relief applications A third of training providers that bid for the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s apprenticeship and adult education Covid-19… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Minister rules out delay to framework switch-off after ‘careful consideration’ Gillian Keegan has ruled out an extension to the switch-off date for starts on old-style apprenticeships, known as frameworks,… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 821 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 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
