News Coronavirus: How colleges are going above and beyond for their local communities Colleges across the country have volunteered their services to help local communities during the Covid-19 pandemic. FE Week shares… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News HMRC publish furlough and training guidance for apprentices The government has finally confirmed that apprentices can continue with funded training when employers use the job retention scheme,… Nick Linford 6y Nick Linford 6y News Exclusive Extraordinary efforts of staff still caring for vulnerable learners FE Week has spoken to a number of specialist colleges to uncover the impact the Covid-19 crisis is having… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News DfE ploughs on with plans for T-level launch despite coronavirus concerns The government is driving forward with plans to launch the first three T-levels from September 2020 despite the disruption… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Funding clawback warning to colleges for deliberate under delivery Colleges that deliberatley under deliver their adult education budget allocations this year will have their funding clawed back, the… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Coronavirus: Schools and colleges will rank GCSE and A-level pupils within grades Schools and colleges will rank their GCSE and A-level pupils within each grade under a new system of assessment… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Chief regulator offers ‘reassurance’ over this summer’s GCSE and A-level grades Ofqual’s chief regulator Sally Collier has “reassured” GCSE and A-level students that the grades they get this summer will… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Coronavirus: An explainer on how GCSE and A-level grades will be awarded this summer Ofqual has revealed how students will be assessed for GCSE and A-level qualifications this summer, following the cancellation of… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive Hadlow break-up hits two month delay due to ‘complexity’ Delays have struck the break-up of the first college group to go insolvent owing to the “necessarily complex and… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Exclusive Remote assessment guidance too vague and open to malpractice, say awarding bodies Online assessment will only work for around 40 per cent of apprenticeships and the government’s “vague” guidance in the… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive University in drive to push MBA apprentice places as government reviews funding A university is scrambling to recruit MBA apprentices amid the government’s review of the programme’s funding. On Monday the… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive Treasury confirms colleges CAN furlough staff Treasury officials have given colleges the green light to tap into their coronavirus job retention scheme. Speaking to FE… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y Newer 1 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 830 Older Must read 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 6d Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 6d 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 3w Shane Chowen 3w 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Next 3 stories 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo 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 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo
