Politics Oli de Botton appointed ‘expert adviser’ to Starmer on skills Former headteacher will leave role at the Careers and Enterprise Company this month Freddie Whittaker 7mo Freddie Whittaker 7mo Colleges Ofsted: Schools and colleges must improve ‘poor’ careers advice Most college students can’t remember what careers guidance they had in school Josh Mellor 7mo Josh Mellor 7mo Higher education, Training Providers Trainee teachers dumped in cafes and shops for work placements Applied Business Academy liquidated before facing ‘significant penalties’ Shane Chowen 7mo Shane Chowen 7mo Ofsted ‘Inadequate’ blow for newcomer to care home manager training Franhen Consultancy’s apprenticeship funding contract now hangs in the balance Anviksha Patel 7mo Anviksha Patel 7mo News AQA buys Construction EPA Company Exam body expands further into vocational training space Billy Camden 7mo Billy Camden 7mo Colleges Revealed: £302m college condition allocations DfE also dishes out additional £20m to Leeds and Greater Manchester to help manage student population surge Josh Mellor 7mo Josh Mellor 7mo AI AI tool for electronics teaching developed by ex-IfATE board member The tool was funded through a competition for AI tools that could save teachers time Josh Mellor 7mo Josh Mellor 7mo WorldSkills UK WorldSkills UK names squad for Shanghai 2026 Over 80 students and apprentices will undergo intense training to prepare for WorldSkills Shanghai Anviksha Patel 7mo Anviksha Patel 7mo Adult education, Devolution ‘Back door devolution’ as 11 councils get extra procurement powers But not all councils are aware of the DfE’s plans Josh Mellor 7mo Josh Mellor 7mo Long read Investigation Attending to the problem Exclusive data reveals student absenteeism has got worse across further education since the Covid lockdowns – but colleges are… Jessica Hill 7mo Jessica Hill 7mo Skills bootcamps Exclusive Bootcamp provider in whistleblower probe collapses ‘I’m not one of these cowboys who treat people like dirt’ Anviksha Patel 7mo Anviksha Patel 7mo T Levels NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students Anviksha Patel 7mo Anviksha Patel 7mo Newer 1 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 831 Older Must read 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 7d Shane Chowen 7d 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 2w Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 2w 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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
