News Revealed: The providers that can bid in the next £120m Institutes of Technology tender The government will only accept proposals from providers in 20 of England’s 38 local enterprise partnership (LEP) areas for… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive MP to meet FE Commissioner over ‘disappointing’ college closure plans An MP has hit out at the proposed closure of a college in his constituency and is set to… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News London plans to pull funding for 32 out-of-area colleges More than 30 colleges based outside London are set to lose millions in funding for delivering training to adults… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News West Kent & Ashford College has debts of over £100m to almost 70 organisations The second college to enter education administration has debts and liabilities of more than £100 million to over 60… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Payout given to retiring principal must be paid back A university has been told to repay £119,000 by its funding body after an investigation found a payout to… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Gillian Keegan appointed apprenticeships and skills minister Gillian Keegan has been named as the new apprenticeships and skills minister. She joined the Department for Education as… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Renewed calls for skills tax credits as budget looms With the budget less than a month away, and the prime minister confirming the apprenticeship levy needs reform, there… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News WorldSkills bootcamp: what does it take to be a competitor? As the run-up to WorldSkills 2021 picks up pace, FE Week reporter Fraser Whieldon went behind-the-scenes at a Squad… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Exclusive College groups struggling to shine as Ofsted visits for first time More than half of all young learners who enrolled in September at ungraded merged FE colleges now find themselves… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Ofsted watch: Two providers lose ‘outstanding’ grades One college and one private provider lost their ‘outstanding’ grades in a mixed week for the FE sector. Gateshead… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Exclusive Could Wolf persuade the PM to revive night schools? Part-time evening courses were once a route that allowed tens of thousands of adults to retrain. But government funding… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Ofsted updates report after grades omission fiasco Ofsted has been forced to revise a published inspection report after being made aware it was missing both apprenticeship… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Newer 1 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 830 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
