News ESFA waters down apprenticeship oversight for new providers The Education and Skills Funding Agency has softened its policy on allowing paused providers to start recruiting again. Since… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News College intervention regime resumes as AoC calls for post-Covid FE Commissioner ‘rethink’ The Association of Colleges is calling for a post-Covid-19 “rethink” of the sector’s intervention regime as the FE Commissioner… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Government urged to let adults return to class before September FE sector membership bodies have joined forces to urge the education secretary to let adults return to training before… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Plan to triple traineeships with £111m to include £1,000 employer ‘bonus’ The chancellor is expected to announce on Wednesday a £1,000 employer incentive funded from an injection of £111 million… Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News Locked-up and locked-down: how prison education has fared during Covid-19 FE Week takes a look at how prison education has adapted after face-to-face teaching was suspended following the Covid-19… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Ofsted to resume visits in September with published reports but no grades Ofsted will start visiting colleges and training providers again from September – with letters about what the inspectors found… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Ofsted watch: Colleges see top results from last drop of Ofsted reports until 2021 General FE colleges received a string of positive results, including a grade one, in June from the last drop… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Speed read: New rules for subcontracting starting from 2020/21 The Education and Skills Funding Agency has set out the measures it will take to “significantly” reduce subcontracting in… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News DfE to pay employers £750 for every T-level industry placement Employers will be offered cash incentives of up to £750 per student on a T-level industry placement from September,… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Provider shuts its doors to hundreds of young engineering apprentices A training provider has laid off all 30 staff and shut its door to hundreds of young engineering apprentices,… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Greater London Authority admin for adult education rises to nearly £5m The cost of managing and administering the adult education budget for the Greater London Authority has shot up to… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News From Saturday adults can go to the pub but not to college. Could that change before September? The Department for Education has revealed it is considering allowing adult learners to return to college before September ahead of the full re-opening… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y Newer 1 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 830 Older Must read 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 6d Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 6d Qualifications Exclusive Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels Shane Chowen 3w Shane Chowen 3w Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Next 3 stories 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo
