Awarding Awarding body fined £15k for ‘serious’ conflict of interest failures The company shared an office and staff with one of its test centres Josh Mellor 8mo Josh Mellor 8mo Apprenticeships NHS to save level 7 apprenticeships from funding axe ‘Mitigation fund’ launched for five health and social care professions Josh Mellor 8mo Josh Mellor 8mo Adult education Exclusive Fake employer used for ‘fraudulent’ skills bootcamp cash claims Police investigating while firm that secured £22m contracts sues DfE Billy Camden 8mo Billy Camden 8mo Adult education Mayor’s money to heat up FE ‘cold spots’ Capital funding dished out to providers to target towns with a training provision ‘deficit’ Josh Mellor 8mo Josh Mellor 8mo Ofsted Ofsted sounds siren over ambulance provider’s apprenticeships Apprentices aren’t supported with learning after their initial training, inspectors find at north east firm Josh Mellor 8mo Josh Mellor 8mo Prison education Existing providers win £1.5bn prison education ‘overhaul’ Critics warn the system will continue to fail unless more drastic action is taken Anviksha Patel 8mo Anviksha Patel 8mo Apprenticeships Exclusive CareShield exits apprenticeships to protect learners from staff shortages Sector-wide challenges made it ‘increasingly difficult’ to deliver high-quality training, provider’s leaders say Billy Camden 8mo Billy Camden 8mo Ofsted Ofsted: Young people ‘at risk’ at G4S-run secure training centre Sir Martyn Oliver invokes rare ‘urgent notification’ after finding systemic safeguarding failures at Oakhill STC Anviksha Patel 8mo Anviksha Patel 8mo Awarding WJEC exam board fined £350k over wrong GCSE results Ofqual to issue WJEC with six-figure penalty after 1,527 GCSE students received incorrect results Jack Dyson 8mo Jack Dyson 8mo Adult education Green skills funding results delayed over premature course adverts Providers were caught promoting courses before funding had been confirmed Shane Chowen 8mo Shane Chowen 8mo Colleges ESOL results probes launched into The Sheffield College Two staff members have been suspended pending multiple investigations, according to reports Anviksha Patel 8mo Anviksha Patel 8mo Sponsored post Sponsored Funding Adult Green Skills New sources of funding are available to finance the delivery of green skills to all learners. Government policy is… Tyler Palmer 8mo Sabre Rigs 8mo Newer 1 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 854 Older Must read Awarding Earpiece exam cheat ring jailed over construction test fraud Men trained candidates to hide devices and exploit access arrangements to pass mandatory safety tests Josh Mellor 6h Josh Mellor 6h Adult education, Apprenticeships, Skills reform Apprenticeships purge: Team leader and chartered manager among 16 axed standards Ministers also unveil the first 7 apprenticeship units Shane Chowen 2w Shane Chowen 2w 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 1mo Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund 1mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 4mo Shane Chowen 4mo 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 5mo Anviksha Patel 5mo
