News ESFA reveals calculations for the furloughed apprentice wage top-up The Education and Skills Funding Agency has finally confirmed that the national minimum wage requirement for a furloughed apprentice… Nick Linford 6y Nick Linford 6y News Revealed: 576 ‘crucial’ qualifications assigned the DfE’s £400 funding uplift Almost 600 qualifications for 16 to 18 year-old students that are “crucial for the Labour market” have been chosen… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Help!: DfE to spend £10m ‘simplifying’ the digital apprenticeship service A two-year £10 million project to renovate the digital apprenticeship service as it is scaled up is being launched… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Speed read: Highlights from our webinar with Gillian Keegan FE Week was joined by apprenticeships minister Gillian Keegan on Monday for our latest webinar on the response to… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive Construction is still under way – but with new rules and procedures While the government has promised £1.5 billion of new cash to colleges over this parliament to create “cutting-edge facilities”,… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News, Sponsored post Sponsored SPONSORED: Huge demand for health and social care training from public as 400,000 volunteer to support the COVID-19 fight There has been a spike in demand from individuals looking to complete online training in the wake of the… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News MPs in fight to save land-based college A cross-party group of MPs is fighting to save a land-based college they fear could be closed following the… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Lawyers claim ESFA provider relief scheme ‘unlawful’ in letter to minister A high-profile QC has worked with solicitors to write to the apprenticeships minister, Gillian Keegan, arguing that the Education… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive Revealed: Covid-19 hit to apprenticeship starts The dramatic impact of the coronavirus crisis on apprentice recruitment is laid bare for the first time in a… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Apprenticeship quango launches learner satisfaction survey The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has today launched a new apprentice satisfaction survey. It comes a week… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News ESFA provider relief application deadline extended The deadline for providers to submit bids for supplier relief from the Education and Skills Funding Agency has been… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News DfE will now ‘replace’ and ‘repurpose’ the cancelled monthly apprenticeship statistics The Department for Education appears to have backtracked on a decision to scrap monthly apprenticeship data releases by now… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y Newer 1 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 851 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