News Two years since the levy launched, skills minister reflects on success of a ‘carrot and stick’ policy Employers with a payroll of £3 million or more made their first monthly apprenticeship levy payment in April 2017… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Ofsted watch: UTC jumps from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’ A university technical college was celebrating this week after it climbed its way up from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’, while… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Universities and training providers clash on apprenticeship priorities It is “entirely unacceptable” to expect public sector employers to subsidise low-level apprenticeships for chefs and hairdressers, a university… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Exclusive Overspend: GLA warns of risk to AEB devo project The Greater London Authority has denied that devolution of the adult education budget is at risk due to spiralling… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Exclusive It’s FE Week wot won it: 5 month mystery of missing £300k levy ‘resolved’ by ESFA The Education and Skills Funding Agency has finally returned £300,000 to a large high-profile employer within hours of FE… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Third of apprentices on standards not ready for planned end-point assessment in 2017/18 One-third of apprentices on standards were not ready for their planned end-point assessment last year, the government has revealed…. Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive Investigation by statistics watchdog after ESFA lists ‘unreliable’ providers The country’s national statistics regulator is investigating whether the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s apprenticeship achievement rate data can… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News AoC ‘disappointed’ local sustainability reviews won’t include schools The Association of Colleges has criticised the Department for Education’s new local area reviews for not including small “non-viable”… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Tenth UTC closure announced Yet another university technical college will close later this year, taking the total to 10 for the troubled programme…. Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News ESFA apologises over apprenticeship off-the-job calculation blunder The Education and Skills Funding Agency has apologised for causing confusion in its off-the-job training rule and updated its… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Training provider director jailed for 8 months for fraud A former director of a training provider that falsified exam papers for individuals seeking to gain security guard licenses… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Minister admits a lot ‘we don’t know yet’ about Treasury backed national retraining scheme The government still doesn’t know how the national retraining scheme will work or how much it will cost, even… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y Newer 1 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 811 Older Must read 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 3w Jessica Hill 3w 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 1mo Billy Camden 1mo 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 3mo Josh Mellor 3mo
