News Exclusive Struggling Gateshead delays annual accounts as auditors conclude investigation A college has delayed signing off on its 2018/19 accounts as forensic investigators shed light on its unexpected £6… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y 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 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y 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 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y 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 6y Billy Camden 6y 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 6y Billy Camden 6y 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 6y Billy Camden 6y 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 6y Nick Linford 6y 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 6y Billy Camden 6y 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 6y Billy Camden 6y 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 6y Nick Linford 6y 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 6y Billy Camden 6y 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 6y Billy Camden 6y Newer 1 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 830 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 5d Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 5d 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