News DfE publishes ‘checklist’ for the wider reopening of colleges The Department for Education has published a “checklist” to assist colleges with their wider reopening from 1 June. Government… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Ofqual reveals three week ‘window’ for estimating grades Colleges and training providers will have a three week “window” to provide calculated grades for vocational and technical qualifications… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive Majority of eligible providers chose not to apply for ESFA Covid-19 supplier relief Only around a quarter of eligible training providers applied for the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s Covid-19 supplier relief… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Unions set out 5 tests to meet before staff and students return to college Unions representing tens of thousands of college staff have set out five “tests” they believe should be met before… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive ESFA back-tracks after threat to challenge low apprenticeship achievement rates Two weeks after the Education and Skills Funding Agency announced they would intervene at apprenticeship providers that failed to… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Outstanding!: College group given top Ofsted marks across the board Chichester College Group has become the second general further education college to be rated ‘outstanding’ under Ofsted’s new inspection… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Free recording: Latest FE policy response to Covid-19 outbreak The third webcast in FE Week’s series – further education sector’s response and requirements to the coronavirus pandemic –… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News DfE clarifies which college students ‘should’ receive face to face delivery from 1 June First year students on all two-year 16 to 19 vocational study programmes, such as BTECs, should start returning to… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News DfE announces first year sixth form students could be returning to college as soon as 1 June Colleges have been asked to begin face to face teaching with students currently in their first year of sixth… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y Feature, News What does an inspectorate do when it can’t inspect? Six weeks after lockdown and the sudden end of inspections, and five weeks after Ofsted mooted a mass redeployment… JL Dutaut 6y JL Dutaut 6y News Adult education charity rescued by council A long-running adult education charity has been saved from going under after a local council agreed to a £100,000… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Coronavirus: College to build extra classrooms for anticipated spike in student numbers A sixth-form has brought forward plans to build extra temporary classrooms as colleges across the country brace themselves for… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Newer 1 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 851 Older Must read Colleges, Politics Exclusive Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’ The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords… Jessica Hill 2w Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund 2w Colleges, Long read Investigation Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,… Jessica Hill 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo Colleges, Long read Exclusive Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo Next 3 stories Young people Long read Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals Anviksha Patel 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo News Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the… Shane Chowen 5mo Shane Chowen 5mo 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 5mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 5mo
