News Ofsted watch: Two providers lose ‘outstanding’ grades One college and one private provider lost their ‘outstanding’ grades in a mixed week for the FE sector. Gateshead… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Exclusive Could Wolf persuade the PM to revive night schools? Part-time evening courses were once a route that allowed tens of thousands of adults to retrain. But government funding… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Ofsted updates report after grades omission fiasco Ofsted has been forced to revise a published inspection report after being made aware it was missing both apprenticeship… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Exclusive Government slashes £11m from £20m adult traineeship budget The Department for Education is to cut the budget for adult traineeships by more than half from August 2020…. Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News New Boris adviser would ‘take a flamethrower’ to adult education policy Professor Alison Wolf is now working three days a week advising Number 10 on FE policy ahead of the… Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News Exclusive London’s mega-college to be hit with a grade three A large London college group wrestling with an unexpected £10 million deficit is set to receive a grade three… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Exclusive Provider advertises £30k reward in return for their ‘achieved learners’ A training provider is offering a reward of just under £30,000 for simply adding their data on achieved learners… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Inspectorate apologises to college principal after reversing grade four Ofsted has apologised and overturned a provisional ‘inadequate’ judgement after a college complained when inspectors alleged that student safety… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Lord Agnew to leave the DfE Lord Agnew is to leave the Department for Education, FE Week’s sister paper FE Week understands. The junior academies… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Crisis hit HS2 college hires lawyers to gag Ofsted The crisis hit National College for HS2 has hired a team of lawyers to stop Ofsted publishing a highly… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Donelan promoted to universities minister and says FE to be decided tomorrow Michelle Donelan has been appointed as the new universities minister – and has not ruled out also taking on… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Gavin Williamson keeps education secretary role Gavin Williamson is to stay on as education secretary following a post-Brexit ministerial reshuffle. However, it’s not known whether… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 813 Older Must read 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 2w Jessica Hill 2w 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
