News DfE appoints Nick Timothy as non-executive director Nick Timothy, the controversial former chief of staff to prime minister Theresa May, has joined the Department for Education…. Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News GCSE and A-level exam results days revealed Students will receive their GCSE and A-level results on the normal days of August 20 and 13 respectively this… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Vast majority of apprentices still receiving training, according to AELP survey More than eight in 10 apprentices are continuing to receive training during the Covid-19 lockdown, the Association of Employment… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Ofqual seeks views on plans for teachers to estimate GCSE and A-level grades The sector has just days to respond to an Ofqual consultation on its plans for teacher calculated GCSE and… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Free recording: Response to Ofqual’s guidance on grading vocational qualifications Last week, Ofqual published their guidance on arrangements for grading BTEC, functional skills and other vocational qualifications this summer…. Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive College loses £91k after ending the wait for a favourable Nigerian exchange rate A college tied up in a long-running legal dispute with a Nigerian State has accepted a loss of £91,000… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News DfE cancels achievement rates publication in 2021 for all providers The government will not publish provider-level achievement rates for the current academic year due to the coronavirus crisis. However,… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Labour appoints shadow apprenticeships minister as Hardy holds onto colleges Toby Perkins has been appointed Labour’s new shadow apprenticeships and lifelong learning minister – separate to the shadow further… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News T-level content finally published as minister says most colleges ‘wanted to continue’ The long-awaited content for the first three T-levels is set to be published as the skills minister pleads with… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News College apprenticeship provider cuts staff wages by 25% to ‘buy time’ Staff at a college owned apprenticeship provider have taken a 25 per cent pay cut for the next sixth… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News EuroSkills 2020 postponed until 2021 The international EuroSkills 2020 competition has been postponed from this September until next year, it has been announced. It… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Exclusive Teachers to estimate functional skills results this summer Results for this summer’s cancelled functional skills exams will be based on teacher calculated grades, Ofqual is set to… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 818 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 4d Jessica Hill 4d 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Billy Camden 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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