News FAB award winners 2019 unveiled A provider of British Sign Language qualifications and an engineering awarding organisation are among the winners of this year’s… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofqual chief has three questions for awarding organisations as part of crackdown Ofqual’s chief regulator has tasked awarding organisations with answering three questions as part of the watchdog’s work on ensuring… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Monthly apprenticeships update: July starts up just 2% on last year Apprenticeship starts for the month of July 2019 are up just 2 per cent on the previous year and… Nick Linford 6y Nick Linford 6y News FAB chair to make 5 wishes to education secretary Federation of Awarding Bodies chair Paul Eeles will make five wishes to education secretary Gavin Williamson at the membership… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Fourth content review of apprenticeship standards launched Apprenticeships covering agriculture, environment and animal care will be probed by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education in… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Nottingham College staff call for their CEO and chair to resign Staff at a college embroiled in a bitter contracts row have delivered a vote of no confidence in their… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Ofqual wants to ‘rebuke’ rule-breaking exam boards Ofqual is proposing to change how it punishes awarding organisations who are non-compliant with new “public rebukes” and fixed… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Another 14 strike days announced at college involved in contracts row Nottingham College will be hit with yet more “unprecedented” strikes next month after staff accused their leaders of reneging… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y Feature, News Introducing… Lord Agnew Jess Staufenberg has closely followed Lord Agnew’s career in the schools sector, where his reputation divides opinion. As he… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News DfE looking to appoint extra principals and consultants to ‘enable more colleges to be supported’ The FE Commissioner is recruiting more college leaders and governors to firm up the National Leaders of Governance and… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofsted comes down hard on UK’s leading firm of financial compliance advisers A company claiming to be the UK’s largest compliance support and business consultancy provider for financial services has been… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Exclusive Principal goes on ‘leave of absence’ at college under investigation for nepotism and ‘financial wrongdoing’ The principal and chief executive at a college under investigation for nepotism and ‘financial wrongdoing’ is now on a… Nick Linford 6y Nick Linford 6y Newer 1 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 830 Older Must read 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 4d Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 4d Qualifications Exclusive Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels Shane Chowen 3w Shane Chowen 3w Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Next 3 stories Colleges, Long read Long read Colleges on the frontline of a divided nation As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica… Jessica Hill 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Colleges, Long read Alun Francis, chair of the Social Mobility Commission Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is… Jessica Hill 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo Long read, Prison education Long read The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release ‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’ Jessica Hill 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo
