Colleges UCU launches England-wide college strike ballot The Association of Colleges says the union’s 10 per cent pay rise demand is unaffordable Josh Mellor 2w Josh Mellor 2w Higher education DfE removes funding to develop HTQ courses The fund aimed to boost uptake of higher level technical qualifications Josh Mellor 2w Josh Mellor 2w Colleges CCC teachers begin strikes over sixth-form pay freeze Their pay could be frozen for up to 3 years until a ‘discrepancy’ between their salaries and the rest… Josh Mellor 2w Josh Mellor 2w Sponsored post Sponsored Supporting the UK’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan Through Skills The UK Government’s Decarbonising Transport: A Better, Greener Britain strategy sets a legally binding path towards a net-zero transport… Advertorial 2w Sabre Rigs 2w Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Starmer swerves a deadline for headline ‘two-thirds’ target ‘If there’s no date for people to work towards, then it’s just a vague aspiration’, says ex-SpAd Billy Camden 2w Billy Camden 2w 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 2w Shane Chowen 2w Apprenticeships £100bn digital ID contract is a Blair faced lie, says Multiverse ‘We are not an app provider, even for £100 billion…’ Anviksha Patel 2w Anviksha Patel 2w Skills reform FE to get ‘extra £800m’ next year as Starmer ‘scraps’ 50% uni target PM replaces Blair’s mantra with a new goal that includes FE and apprenticeships and teases post-16 white paper plans Billy Camden 3w Billy Camden 3w Skills reform McFadden: Youth guarantee will have ‘more opportunity’ than the YTS Work and pensions secretary pledges to make the new policy ‘more attractive’ than the previous youth training scheme Billy Camden 3w Billy Camden 3w Higher education Maintenance grants to return under the LLE, Phillipson announces Value of the grants will be revealed at next month’s budget Josh Mellor 3w Josh Mellor 3w Skills reform Labour conference 2025: Pat McFadden’s full speech The work and pensions secretary, who now controls most of the skills brief, addressed the party’s annual conference in… Josh Mellor 3w Josh Mellor 3w Young people Chancellor to ‘guarantee’ job or training place to young NEETs New scheme to strip benefits from young people that refuse work or training in a bid to tackle rising… FE Week Reporter 3w FE Week Reporter 3w Newer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 829 Older Must read 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 2w Shane Chowen 2w 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 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 Next 3 stories 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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 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 6mo Billy Camden 6mo