News

Apprenticeships quango adviser quits after breaking advertising rules

An adviser to the government’s apprenticeship quango has quit after FE Week found he had set up an assessment…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Game over for level 2 business admin apprenticeship

Hopes for a level 2 business administration standard were shattered today after the new boss of the government’s apprenticeship…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofqual win: Employers to lose ownership of quality assuring apprentice assessments

The government is consulting on plans to dump employers when it comes to external quality assurance of apprentices –…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Apprenticeship starts fall 12 percent in December

The number of apprenticeship starts in England plunged by 12 per cent in December, according to government figures published…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

MBA apprenticeship faces cull as Williamson ‘unconvinced’

The education secretary has demanded a review into the controversial MBA apprenticeship “to safeguard the integrity of the apprenticeship…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Governance

Government to tender for college board recruitment and audit service

The Department for Education has announced it will be piloting a college governor recruitment scheme and board performance audits….

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon


News

DfE launches £9m College Collaboration Fund to replace £15m Strategic College Improvement Fund

The education secretary Gavin Williamson is launching a new £9 million “collaboration” fund in a bid to improve governance…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

WorldSkills UK Centre of Excellence project aims to support 1,000 lecturers

The organisation behind the UK’s performance in international skills competitions is launching the WorldSkills UK Centre of Excellence project…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Who’s who? Your guide to the new ministerial line-up at the DfE

The remits of the new ministerial team at the Department for Education have been confirmed following Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

ESFA announce date for full rollout of digital apprenticeship system

All apprenticeship starts will be managed through the government’s digital apprenticeship service from 1 November 2020, the Education and…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Catholic sixth form in need of partner to survive, claims FE Commissioner

A Blackburn-based catholic sixth form college is no longer “sustainable” due to falling student numbers, the FE commissioner has…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Government praise for ‘new and enthusiastic’ staff at council-run grade four provider

An FE Commissioner report published today praised a council’s response to a grade four from Ofsted, after the result…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon

Must read

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
Colleges, 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
Jessica Hill
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
Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

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
Jessica Hill