News Exclusive College groups struggling to shine as Ofsted visits for first time More than half of all young learners who enrolled in September at ungraded merged FE colleges now find themselves… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Ofsted watch: Two providers lose ‘outstanding’ grades One college and one private provider lost their ‘outstanding’ grades in a mixed week for the FE sector. Gateshead… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Exclusive Could Wolf persuade the PM to revive night schools? Part-time evening courses were once a route that allowed tens of thousands of adults to retrain. But government funding… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Ofsted updates report after grades omission fiasco Ofsted has been forced to revise a published inspection report after being made aware it was missing both apprenticeship… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y 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 Newer 1 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 851 Older Must read 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 1d Shane Chowen 1d 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 Next 3 stories 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 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
