News FE base rate to increase from August 2020 for first time since 2013 to £4,188 Colleges will see a 4.7 per cent increase in the unweighted base rate for full time students aged 16… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Association of Colleges gives cautious welcome to chancellor’s FE funding boost “Meaningful” but not enough to stabilise FE for the future: that is the Association of Colleges’ response to chancellor… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Colleges receive £400m boost from chancellor Sajid Javid Colleges are to receive a £400m boost from the chancellor, it has been announced. Sajid Javid today revealed the… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Meet the Government’s college finance Tsar who – like the NAO – will review DfE monitoring The Government today announced Dame Mary Ney will lead a review into the way the Department for Education monitors… Nick Linford 6y Nick Linford 6y News Ofsted watch: ‘Reasonable’ week for many new providers Ofsted has reported a number of new apprenticeship providers have made ‘reasonable progress’ in early monitoring visits, according to… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News WorldSkills 2019: Picture highlights from closing medal ceremony See the victories of Team UK’s medal winners in this series of spectacular photos from the WorldSkills 2019 medal… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News WorldSkills 2019: UK wins 15 medallions of excellence Team UK has taken home 15 medallions of excellence from WorldSkills 2019. The medallions are earned by competitors who… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News WorldSkills 2019: Team UK bringing home haul of medals Team UK will be loading down its aircraft home with a haul of gold, silver and bronze medals. The… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News WorldSkills 2019: Team UK flying high after gold in aircraft maintenance Team UK has scored a gold medal in aircraft maintenance, thanks to the efforts of competitor Haydn Jakes. The… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News WorldSkills 2019: Rebecca West picks up gold medal for beauty therapy Team UK has achieved a gold medal in beauty therapy for competitor Rebecca West. The achievement means Britain retains… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Exclusive Skills for Care quits official quality assurance role for apprenticeships Skills for Care is to scrap their adult care external quality assurance service (ACEQUAS) to apprenticeship end-point assessment organisations,… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News WorldSkills closing and medal ceremony | watch it live here Watch the WorldSkills 2019 medal ceremony live here from 5pm (UK time) today, and see Russian president Vladimir Putin… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y Newer 1 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 805 Older Must read Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 4d Billy Camden 4d Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe Anviksha Patel 2w Anviksha Patel 2w Colleges Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying… Anviksha Patel 4w Anviksha Patel 4w Next 3 stories T Levels NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 2mo Josh Mellor 2mo Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps Exclusive Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden and Frances Read 2mo