News Exclusive Government slashes £11m from £20m adult traineeship budget The Department for Education is to cut the budget for adult traineeships by more than half from August 2020…. Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News New Boris adviser would ‘take a flamethrower’ to adult education policy Professor Alison Wolf is now working three days a week advising Number 10 on FE policy ahead of the… Nick Linford 6y Nick Linford 6y News Exclusive London’s mega-college to be hit with a grade three A large London college group wrestling with an unexpected £10 million deficit is set to receive a grade three… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Exclusive Provider advertises £30k reward in return for their ‘achieved learners’ A training provider is offering a reward of just under £30,000 for simply adding their data on achieved learners… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive Inspectorate apologises to college principal after reversing grade four Ofsted has apologised and overturned a provisional ‘inadequate’ judgement after a college complained when inspectors alleged that student safety… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Lord Agnew to leave the DfE Lord Agnew is to leave the Department for Education, FE Week’s sister paper FE Week understands. The junior academies… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive Crisis hit HS2 college hires lawyers to gag Ofsted The crisis hit National College for HS2 has hired a team of lawyers to stop Ofsted publishing a highly… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive Donelan promoted to universities minister and says FE to be decided tomorrow Michelle Donelan has been appointed as the new universities minister – and has not ruled out also taking on… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Gavin Williamson keeps education secretary role Gavin Williamson is to stay on as education secretary following a post-Brexit ministerial reshuffle. However, it’s not known whether… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Northern Powerhouse Partnership director tells education ministers they’ve ‘run out of time’ The director of George Osborne’s Northern Powerhouse Partnership has called for skills policy to be fully devolved from Whitehall,… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Williamson announces plan to scrap 5,000 qualifications – but will anybody notice? A consultation on plans to remove funding for more than 5,000 legacy qualifications at level three and below has… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Ministerial ‘gap’ at the DfE needs to be resolved soon, says Tory MP A Conservative MP has called for the “gap” at the Department of Education for a dedicated apprenticeships and skills… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y Newer 1 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 830 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
