News Exclusive UK to take first steps towards hosting WorldSkills The UK is to take its first steps towards hosting the international WorldSkills competition by gauging interest from the… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News City & Guilds CEO to step down The chief executive of education giant City & Guilds is stepping down. Chris Jones will leave on 31 January,… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News FE lecturers have lowest levels of wellbeing among educators, new analysis suggests Lecturers in FE have the lowest levels of positive wellbeing and “stand out” as having high levels of anxiety… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Angela Rayner to run for Labour deputy leadership The shadow education secretary Angela Rayner will run to be Labour’s deputy leader, she will announce today. The Ashton-under-Lyne… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Break-up of first college in administration begins Hadlow College has begun transferring campuses to other providers after it became the first to enter education administration last… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Highest-paid college principal retires with immediate effect The highest-paid principal in the country, who led a college which is under investigation after it found an unexplained… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Ofsted watch: Premier League and national laboratory providers score well over festive period A provider to the Premier League has scored well while a national laboratory training firm has done even better… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Over £1bn already wasted on ‘fake apprenticeships’, claims former adviser to skills ministers Around £1.2 billion has been “wasted” on “fake apprenticeships” that have taken up half of all starts since the… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Businesses welcome ‘manageable’ 6.4% apprentice minimum wage increase The prime minister’s inflation-busting apprentice minimum wage increase is “manageable” and will not impede businesses from taking on new… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Adult learning ‘real cause for concern’ as participation hits record low Adult participation in education has fallen to record low with almost four million ‘lost learners’ since 2010, according to… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News 12 months of FE Week: December For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Last… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News 12 months of FE Week: November For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Here’s… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Newer 1 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 805 Older Must read 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 4h Billy Camden 4h 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 1w Anviksha Patel 1w 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 3w Anviksha Patel 3w Next 3 stories 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 1mo Josh Mellor 1mo Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps Exclusive Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden and Frances Read 2mo
