News Opening from June: College leaders given flexibilities College leaders have been given significant flexibility over which learners they invite back onsite from as soon as June…. Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News DfE publishes ‘checklist’ for the wider reopening of colleges The Department for Education has published a “checklist” to assist colleges with their wider reopening from 1 June. Government… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Ofqual reveals three week ‘window’ for estimating grades Colleges and training providers will have a three week “window” to provide calculated grades for vocational and technical qualifications… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Majority of eligible providers chose not to apply for ESFA Covid-19 supplier relief Only around a quarter of eligible training providers applied for the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s Covid-19 supplier relief… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Unions set out 5 tests to meet before staff and students return to college Unions representing tens of thousands of college staff have set out five “tests” they believe should be met before… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive ESFA back-tracks after threat to challenge low apprenticeship achievement rates Two weeks after the Education and Skills Funding Agency announced they would intervene at apprenticeship providers that failed to… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Outstanding!: College group given top Ofsted marks across the board Chichester College Group has become the second general further education college to be rated ‘outstanding’ under Ofsted’s new inspection… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y 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 Newer 1 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 830 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