News Funding rates could be slashed by over 40% in apprenticeship shake-up Funding rates for some apprenticeship standards could be cut by almost half under new proposals being put forward by… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Minister takes the wheel at HS2 college ‘in light of the severity of financial situation’ A National College surviving on government bailouts has been placed in supervised status after the FE Commissioner found it… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofsted verdict: HS2 college left employers to deliver training and failed to protect students from harassment The grade four Ofsted report a National College went to the High Court to suppress has been published this… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News #BackABid: Momentum building for campaign to bring WorldSkills to UK Momentum is building behind FE Week’s rally of support for holding the WorldSkills competition in the UK, after a… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofsted watch: Fourth sixth form college makes it to ‘outstanding’ this year Another sixth form college has received a grade one, making it the fourth such provider to receive the coveted… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofqual orders exam boards to publish qualification costs Exam boards will be required to publish the costs of qualifications on their websites to “create a more level… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Provider pulls out of apprenticeships after second Ofsted mauling The training arm of an engineering trade association has pulled out of apprenticeships in England after it was slammed… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Colleges collect royal honour from Buckingham Palace Staff and students from four colleges brushed shoulders with royalty today as they picked up their Queen’s Anniversary Prizes… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News College rocked by shock deficit appoints experienced interim principal A college that has been rocked by an unexpected £6 million deficit has appointed an experienced FE leader as… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive Derailed: HS2 college face Ofsted grade 4 after dropping legal challenge The troubled National College for HS2 has abandoned its attempts to stop Ofsted publishing a grade four report, after… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Careers advice: Colleges making ‘positive progress’ against Gatsby benchmarks The Careers and Enterprise Company has released new analysis showing how post-16 providers are faring against the eight Gatsby… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Exclusive College relying on secret last-ditch merger to survive before cash runs out in October A bank has pulled a cash-strapped college’s overdraft facility as the clock ticks for its survival – which rests… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Newer 1 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 830 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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
