News AAC Awards 2019 winners crowned The country’s best apprenticeship providers, employers and champions have been honoured at the Annual Apprenticeship Awards 2019. More than… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Exclusive Grade one college chief executive says sorry after dodgy data exposed The chief executive of a grade one college has apologised after an audit exposed data manipulation that resulted in… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Monthly apprenticeships update: January starts up 15% but down 21% on 2017 Apprenticeship starts for January are up 15 per cent on last year but down 21 per cent on the… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Revealed: The 16 members of the ‘College of the Future’ commission The 16 people that will form an independent commission to set out a “new vision” for colleges in England,… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Apprenticeship quality not improving, says Ofsted chief inspector The quality of apprenticeships is “sticking” instead of moving forward, according to Ofsted’s chief inspector who today urged the… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive ESFA says 30 hour cap to off-the-job calculation has always been in funding rules The Education and Skills Funding Agency has insisted that an apparent change it made to the off-the-job training policy… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Annual Apprenticeships Conference 2019 gets underway Colleges, training providers and employers have flooded to Birmingham for the Annual Apprenticeships Conference (AAC) 2019 which officially gets… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Proportion of apprenticeships delivered by subcontractors falls dramatically The proportion of apprenticeships delivered by subcontractors fell 15 points to just 11 per cent last year, according to… Simon Kay 6y Simon Kay 6y News ESFA appears to have changed the apprenticeship off-the-job calculation – again The government appears to have changed the off-the-job (OTJ) training rule again, and is now telling providers they should… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Providers of management apprenticeships to be increasingly audited for proof they are ‘additive’, MPs told The boss of the Education and Skills Funding Agency has promised MPs that management apprenticeships will be “increasingly” audited… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Top DfE official tells PAC of difficult decisions to avoid apprenticeship levy overspend The Department for Education’s top civil servant has admitted “hard choices” will need to be made in the face… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News HMRC investigations into levy underpayments more than doubles in a year The number of HMRC investigations into the underpayment of the apprenticeship levy at big employers has more than doubled… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y Newer 1 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 815 Older Must read 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 2w Jessica Hill 2w 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo