News ESFA delays full rollout of digital apprenticeship system to April 2021 The full transition onto the digital apprenticeship system has been delayed by four months, the Education and Skills Funding… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Controversial closure plans to go ahead for college campus A cash-strapped college group has confirmed it will close one of its rural campuses this summer in the face… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Back to the drawing board for apprenticeship funding rate reform The government’s apprenticeships quango has announced it will launch a second funding rate consultation – days before the deadline… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Adult education AEB funding rules published in draft – but without threatened subcontracting limits Draft rules for funding the adult education budget in 2020/21 have not included any changes to subcontracting despite the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Ofsted releases reports for inspections pre-Covid – but only the positive ones Ofsted has begun publishing FE and skills inspection reports again. Four new reports, based on pre-coronavirus visits, appeared on… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Free recording: Latest FE sector response and requirements to coronavirus FE Week was joined by Labour’s new shadow apprenticeships minister Toby Perkins yesterday for our latest webinar on the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News ESFA reveals calculations for the furloughed apprentice wage top-up The Education and Skills Funding Agency has finally confirmed that the national minimum wage requirement for a furloughed apprentice… Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News Revealed: 576 ‘crucial’ qualifications assigned the DfE’s £400 funding uplift Almost 600 qualifications for 16 to 18 year-old students that are “crucial for the Labour market” have been chosen… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Help!: DfE to spend £10m ‘simplifying’ the digital apprenticeship service A two-year £10 million project to renovate the digital apprenticeship service as it is scaled up is being launched… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Speed read: Highlights from our webinar with Gillian Keegan FE Week was joined by apprenticeships minister Gillian Keegan on Monday for our latest webinar on the response to… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Construction is still under way – but with new rules and procedures While the government has promised £1.5 billion of new cash to colleges over this parliament to create “cutting-edge facilities”,… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News, Sponsored post Sponsored SPONSORED: Huge demand for health and social care training from public as 400,000 volunteer to support the COVID-19 fight There has been a spike in demand from individuals looking to complete online training in the wake of the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 821 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
