News AELP drops Covid-19 supplier relief legal challenge The Association of Employment and Learning Providers has decided to not pursue legal action against the Education and Skills… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Speed read: DfE publishes guidance for colleges on June 15 reopening plan The Department for Education has published updated guidance for colleges and other FE providers about the return of more… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Ofsted watch: Nearly a clean sweep of positive results for FE providers throughout May Almost nine in ten full Ofsted inspection reports for FE providers returned either ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ grades in May…. Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Monthly apprenticeships update: March starts fall 24% while April plummets by 72% Apprenticeship starts for the month of March 2020 are down by a quarter while April plunged by 72 per… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Boris confirms college face-to-face plans can go ahead from 15 June Boris Johnson has given colleges the green light to begin their wider reopening to students from 15 June after… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Dawe quits AELP to lead training provider Mark Dawe is stepping down as chief executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers to head up… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Labour hits out at government response to AELP’s claim ESFA provider relief is ‘unlawful’ Labour has accused the government of failing to make a “serious attempt” to answer AELP’s claim that the Education… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News PM ‘will look at the idea’ of offering an ‘apprenticeships guarantee’ The prime minister has said he will “look at the idea” of giving young people aged 16 to 25… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News ESFA subcontracting consultation response pushed back to June The government’s response to a consultation that outlined plans to overhaul subcontracting rules in further education has been delayed… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Free recording: Latest FE policy response and requirements to Covid-19 outbreak The latest webcast in FE Week’s series – further education sector’s response and requirements to the coronavirus pandemic –… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Feature, News Incorporation: The end of an experiment or the end of a myth? Ministers are considering taking colleges back into government control, as revealed last week in these pages. But, Jess Staufenberg… Jess Staufenberg 5y Jess Staufenberg 5y News Exclusive Milton slams lack of ‘joined-up thinking’ that led to college bailouts A former skills minster has described the “nonsense” of her colleagues setting up schools that competed with the struggling… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 830 Older Must read Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 6d Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 6d 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 3w Shane Chowen 3w 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 Next 3 stories 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 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo 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
