News ESFA bans 8 more providers from recruiting apprentices Another eight apprenticeship providers have been stopped from doing new business after being rapped by Ofsted. The penalties were… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Does Corbyn’s ‘education escalator’ still include free adult learning? Labour’s commitment to fully funding beginner and “second-chance” short adult education courses has been questioned, after the political party… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News UCU threatens strike action over AoC’s ‘derisory’ 1% staff pay rise recommendation The University and College Union has threatened more strike action in the new year after the Association of Colleges… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Insolvency Service investigating Hadlow College directors The former leaders of the first college to enter education administration are being investigated by the Insolvency Service. The… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News City & Guilds buys another training provider Education giant City & Guilds announced today it has acquired its second training provider in two years. Intertrain, a… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Lib Dems pledge £10k ‘skills wallet’ for adults The Lib Dems have pledged to give every adult in England £10,000 to put towards education and training. In… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive Revealed: Hadlow College owes £40 million to over 300 organisations A scandal-hit college and the first to enter education administration owes £40 million to over 300 companies, charities and… Nick Linford 6y Nick Linford 6y News Exclusive College WILL pay the cost of FE loans for victims of a subcontracting scandal The college involved in a FE loan scandal has agreed to pay the cost of the debt in full,… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Troubled Manchester sixth form college in merger rescue talks Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College is looking to merge with the Trafford College Group, after the former’s leaders… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofsted watch: Inspectors find learners unaware they are on an apprenticeship A new provider that has learners on its programme who did not even know they were apprentices overshadowed a… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Ofsted praise environment in new inspection reports “Two acres of peaceful gardens create a calm environment and help them relax, enabling all to concentrate fully on… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Exclusive Workers told to repay thousands for construction course they ‘did not take’ Grzegorz Bogdanski is being forced by the government to repay a £5,421 loan for an FE course he claimed… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Newer 1 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 851 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 20h Shane Chowen 20h 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
