Young people VTQ and T Level results 2025: 7 key trends From industry placements to gender gaps – today’s VTQ and T Level results explained Shane Chowen 7mo Anviksha Patel and Shane Chowen 7mo Young people A-level results 2025: Top grades rise slightly again this year Ofqual says results rise could be because this year’s cohort made ‘better post-16 choices’ FE Week Reporter 7mo FE Week Reporter 7mo Young people A-level results 2025: 8 key trends in England’s data Your handy FE Week round up of the key trends in this year’s A-level results Jack Dyson 7mo Jack Dyson 7mo Young people T Level results 2025: Pass rate up and dropouts down Proportion receiving top grades stays static Billy Camden 7mo Billy Camden 7mo Apprenticeships Labour think tank’s radical plan to tackle apprenticeship levy’s ‘abject failure’ Give SMEs ’skin in the game’ by making more employers pay the charge, ban graduates, end the Treasury top-slice… Josh Mellor 7mo Josh Mellor 7mo Ofsted Child’s play: Early years apprenticeship provider gets top Ofsted marks Daycare training provider rewarded for high level of distinctions for apprentices Anviksha Patel 7mo Anviksha Patel 7mo Colleges, Skills reform First ‘technical excellence colleges’ named in £100m construction skills drive Colleges in every region of England will lead new hubs to train 40,000 workers by 2029 Shane Chowen 7mo Shane Chowen 7mo EuroSkills 2025 Learning for Herning: Inside the Team UK bootcamp teaching mind over medal WorldSkills UK competitors polish their skills, stamina and focus ahead of September’s European skills championships in Denmark Anviksha Patel 7mo Anviksha Patel 7mo Awarding Awarding body fined £15k for ‘serious’ conflict of interest failures The company shared an office and staff with one of its test centres Josh Mellor 7mo Josh Mellor 7mo Apprenticeships NHS to save level 7 apprenticeships from funding axe ‘Mitigation fund’ launched for five health and social care professions Josh Mellor 7mo Josh Mellor 7mo Adult education Exclusive Fake employer used for ‘fraudulent’ skills bootcamp cash claims Police investigating while firm that secured £22m contracts sues DfE Billy Camden 7mo Billy Camden 7mo Adult education Mayor’s money to heat up FE ‘cold spots’ Capital funding dished out to providers to target towns with a training provision ‘deficit’ Josh Mellor 7mo Josh Mellor 7mo Newer 1 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 850 Older Must read Colleges, Politics Exclusive Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’ The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords… Jessica Hill 2w Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund 2w Colleges, Long read Investigation Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,… Jessica Hill 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo Colleges, Long read Exclusive Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo Next 3 stories Young people Long read Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals Anviksha Patel 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo News Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the… Shane Chowen 4mo Shane Chowen 4mo 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 5mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 5mo