News DfE stats lay bare drastic SME shift following levy launch The Department for Education has revealed for the first time how the introduction of the apprenticeship levy in 2017… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Exclusive Shrewsbury college loses grade 4 battle with Ofsted A college accused of serious safeguarding failures has failed to overturn an ‘inadequate’ judgment following a second visit from… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Exclusive BMet sells Stourbridge campus for just £3.55m A college campus that was controversially closed last summer has been sold for £3.55 million, just five years after… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Entrepreneur tops MBA apprenticeship table with £3m starts in September The controversial level 7 senior leader apprenticeship has again hit the headlines in recent days, after the education… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Broker offering subcontracting deal for ‘completed’ 16-18 sport trainees A learner find firm is attempting to broker a subcontracting deal for 16 to 18-year-old trainees who have already… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Cashing in on MBA apprentices: CMI income rockets as CEO pockets £66,500 bonus It is boom time at the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), a charity with a turnover last year of £15… Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News UK colleges remain open in Coronavirus ‘delay’ phase as France and Ireland set to close Closing schools and colleges at this stage in the spread of the coronavirus epidemic could do “more harm than… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Minister promises ‘significant funding’ in ‘coming year’ for SME apprenticeships, claims AELP New skills minister Gillian Keegan has pledged “significant funding” for additional small business apprenticeships in the “coming year”, the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Revealed: DfE finds small employers now account for just 27% of apprenticeship starts The Department for Education has this morning published “analysis looking at the impact of the introduction of the apprenticeship… Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News Treasury pours cold water on hopes for extra SME apprenticeship funding Hopes for new apprenticeship funding have been swiftly crushed after the Treasury confirmed that today’s budget offers no extra… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Budget DOES include manifesto promise of extra £4bn of FE funding in England The chancellor has confirmed the Conservative manifesto commitments for FE, including a £1.5 billion boost to upgrade college buildings… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Coronavirus: ‘Break in learning’ rule suspended for affected apprentices The government will allow apprentices to have a “break in learning” if they cannot be assessed due to the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 818 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 5d Jessica Hill 5d 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