News DfE confirms popular BTECs amongst qualifications facing funding axe More than 160 “duplicate qualifications” at level 3 and below will have their funding removed from August 2020 –… Simon Kay 6y Simon Kay 6y News Ofsted watch: Unimpressive week for new private providers Five early monitoring reports for independent providers returned ‘insufficient’ ratings this week, with Ofsted finding some have not recruited… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News MPs urge DfE to ‘urgently’ raise the 16-18 rate and develop a 10-year funding plan The government must “urgently address the damage that has been done” to FE by raising the 16 to 18… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Six things we learned from the IfATE’s 2018/19 accounts The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has today published its annual accounts for 2018/19. This is only the… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Eleventh UTC to close after student numbers almost halve An ‘inadequate’ university technical college is to close just four years after opening as it is “no longer financially… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Hard to believe? Ofsted found apprentices and their employers did not know they were on the programme A private provider has been slammed by Ofsted after it found learners and their employers unaware they were taking… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofsted misses FE inspection target by more than 10% Ofsted missed its inspection target for FE providers by 11 per cent this year – the biggest miss out… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Former principal of Bournville College was referred to police for operating fraudulently The principal of a collapsed college was referred to the police after his assistant principal wife benefited from a… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Revealed: Learner satisfaction scores for 2018/19 Overall learner satisfaction with FE providers slightly increased this year, according to new government figures. The Department for Education… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Rollout of national retraining scheme gets underway The government has finally revealed details of the first phase of the national retraining scheme, with the launch of… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Majority of care apprentice providers to reduce starts after DfE rejects funding plea More than half the providers of two care worker apprenticeship standards are decreasing their starts, or pulling the programmes… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Nearly a dozen unions challenge college for union reps after lecturer sacked Ten trade unions are involved in a dispute with a cash-strapped college that trains “thousands” of their members each… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y Newer 1 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 830 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 3d Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 3d 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
