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Revealed: 576 ‘crucial’ qualifications assigned the DfE’s £400 funding uplift

Almost 600 qualifications for 16 to 18 year-old students that are “crucial for the Labour market” have been chosen…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Help!: DfE to spend £10m ‘simplifying’ the digital apprenticeship service

A two-year £10 million project to renovate the digital apprenticeship service as it is scaled up is being launched…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Speed read: Highlights from our webinar with Gillian Keegan

FE Week was joined by apprenticeships minister Gillian Keegan on Monday for our latest webinar on the response to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Construction is still under way – but with new rules and procedures

While the government has promised £1.5 billion of new cash to colleges over this parliament to create “cutting-edge facilities”,…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News, Sponsored post

SPONSORED: Huge demand for health and social care training from public as 400,000 volunteer to support the COVID-19 fight

There has been a spike in demand from individuals looking to complete online training in the wake of the…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

MPs in fight to save land-based college

A cross-party group of MPs is fighting to save a land-based college they fear could be closed following the…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon


News

Lawyers claim ESFA provider relief scheme ‘unlawful’ in letter to minister

A high-profile QC has worked with solicitors to write to the apprenticeships minister, Gillian Keegan, arguing that the Education…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Revealed: Covid-19 hit to apprenticeship starts

The dramatic impact of the coronavirus crisis on apprentice recruitment is laid bare for the first time in a…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Apprenticeship quango launches learner satisfaction survey

The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has today launched a new apprentice satisfaction survey. It comes a week…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

ESFA provider relief application deadline extended

The deadline for providers to submit bids for supplier relief from the Education and Skills Funding Agency has been…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

DfE will now ‘replace’ and ‘repurpose’ the cancelled monthly apprenticeship statistics

The Department for Education appears to have backtracked on a decision to scrap monthly apprenticeship data releases by now…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Plans to scrap MBA apprenticeship delayed until possibly 2021

Government plans to axe the controversial MBA qualification from the level 7 senior leader apprenticeship have been put on…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

Colleges, Long read

Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching

In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
16-19

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
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
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

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
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel