News Free recording: Latest FE policy response to Covid-19 outbreak The third webcast in FE Week’s series – further education sector’s response and requirements to the coronavirus pandemic –… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News DfE clarifies which college students ‘should’ receive face to face delivery from 1 June First year students on all two-year 16 to 19 vocational study programmes, such as BTECs, should start returning to… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News DfE announces first year sixth form students could be returning to college as soon as 1 June Colleges have been asked to begin face to face teaching with students currently in their first year of sixth… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Feature, News What does an inspectorate do when it can’t inspect? Six weeks after lockdown and the sudden end of inspections, and five weeks after Ofsted mooted a mass redeployment… JL Dutaut 5y JL Dutaut 5y News Adult education charity rescued by council A long-running adult education charity has been saved from going under after a local council agreed to a £100,000… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Coronavirus: College to build extra classrooms for anticipated spike in student numbers A sixth-form has brought forward plans to build extra temporary classrooms as colleges across the country brace themselves for… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Exclusive Frameworks set for stay of execution The government is considering a U-turn on its planned date to switch off old-style apprenticeship frameworks as providers raise… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive ESFA seeks legal advice in face of unpublished Ofsted reports The Education and Skills Funding Agency is taking legal advice on whether it can intervene at new providers before… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Government to take ownership of colleges The government is working on a plan to bring colleges in England back into public ownership, FE Week understands…. Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News DfE relaxes traineeship rules The Department for Education has relaxed its requirement for students on traineeship programmes to record 100 hours of work… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Speed read: Highlights from our webinar with Toby Perkins FE Week was joined by Labour’s shadow minister for apprenticeships and lifelong learning Toby Perkins on Monday for our… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Low Pay Commission calls on government to better protect apprentices The government has been urged to take action against recurrent “very high levels” of illegally low apprentice wages. The… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 821 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
