News Ofsted watch: A ‘reasonable week’ for new apprenticeship providers It has been a mostly positive week for new apprenticeship providers according to Ofsted’s monitoring reports. Together Training Ltd… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Thousands celebrate second ever Colleges Week Thousands of students, staff and people who love colleges across the country signed pledge cards and handed them to… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Exclusive Providers risk handing back £38m in next 20 years if they quit T-levels Colleges will have to keep on running T-levels for at least 20 years if they want to avoid handing… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Exclusive ‘Worryingly low’ number of BAME college leaders to be tackled with new scheme A ‘Diversity in Leadership Programme’ is to be launched, following analysis published by FE Week which found just 7… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive College quality hits record high A record high proportion of Ofsted-inspected colleges are now rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’, FE Week can reveal. Our analysis… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Sixth form staff march across Westminster to protest for fairer college funding “We want the Department for Education to love our colleges” was the message from sixth form staff marching across… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofsted slams training for 500 apprentices at ‘world leading’ security firm A new provider that trains nearly 500 apprentices for a “world leading” security company has been rapped by Ofsted…. Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News UTC facing apprenticeship recruitment freeze after Ofsted criticism The first university technical college to receive an early monitoring visit for its apprenticeship provision has been heavily criticised… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News AoC: Replace Erasmus+ if the UK is kicked out after Brexit The government needs to pursue every avenue to stay in a Europe-wide student exchange scheme regardless the outcome of… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Record number of apprenticeships to be probed in engineering route review Fifty nine apprenticeship standards in engineering and manufacturing will be reviewed by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Union to present £700m sixth form college invoice to DfE Sixth form college staff will march on the Department for Education tomorrow and hand officials an invoice for £700… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Love our colleges campaign makes its mark in the East Midlands A group of ten East Midlands college leaders met up at Chesterfield College today to celebrate this year’s national… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y Newer 1 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 851 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
