News Coronavirus: How colleges are going above and beyond for their local communities Colleges across the country have volunteered their services to help local communities during the Covid-19 pandemic. FE Week shares… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News HMRC publish furlough and training guidance for apprentices The government has finally confirmed that apprentices can continue with funded training when employers use the job retention scheme,… Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News Exclusive Extraordinary efforts of staff still caring for vulnerable learners FE Week has spoken to a number of specialist colleges to uncover the impact the Covid-19 crisis is having… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News DfE ploughs on with plans for T-level launch despite coronavirus concerns The government is driving forward with plans to launch the first three T-levels from September 2020 despite the disruption… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Funding clawback warning to colleges for deliberate under delivery Colleges that deliberatley under deliver their adult education budget allocations this year will have their funding clawed back, the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Coronavirus: Schools and colleges will rank GCSE and A-level pupils within grades Schools and colleges will rank their GCSE and A-level pupils within each grade under a new system of assessment… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Chief regulator offers ‘reassurance’ over this summer’s GCSE and A-level grades Ofqual’s chief regulator Sally Collier has “reassured” GCSE and A-level students that the grades they get this summer will… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Coronavirus: An explainer on how GCSE and A-level grades will be awarded this summer Ofqual has revealed how students will be assessed for GCSE and A-level qualifications this summer, following the cancellation of… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Hadlow break-up hits two month delay due to ‘complexity’ Delays have struck the break-up of the first college group to go insolvent owing to the “necessarily complex and… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Exclusive Remote assessment guidance too vague and open to malpractice, say awarding bodies Online assessment will only work for around 40 per cent of apprenticeships and the government’s “vague” guidance in the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive University in drive to push MBA apprentice places as government reviews funding A university is scrambling to recruit MBA apprentices amid the government’s review of the programme’s funding. On Monday the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Treasury confirms colleges CAN furlough staff Treasury officials have given colleges the green light to tap into their coronavirus job retention scheme. Speaking to FE… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 813 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
