News Monthly apprenticeships update: March starts up 7% but down on 2017 Apprenticeship starts for the period August 2018 to March 2019 are up 9 per cent on the previous year,… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Post-18 education review: The 9 main recommendations for FE The long-awaited review into post-18 education and funding has been released today, with the publication of a 216-page report…. Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Post-18 education review: Introduce a ‘lifelong learning loan allowance’ The government should introduce a “lifelong learning loan allowance” at levels 4, 5 and 6 for adults without a… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Revealed: The big winners of the controversial £310m European Social Fund tender Serco has come out as the biggest winner of the government’s controversial European Social Fund tender, securing 17 contracts… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Serial entrepreneur’s new provider fails to impress Ofsted A new provider run by a well-known entrepreneur has been criticised by Ofsted after inspectors found it making ‘insufficient… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Exclusive PhD-level apprenticeships are a ‘perfect fit’ for today’s jobs market, says UVAC director A university membership organisation has criticised those opposing PhDlevel apprenticeships, saying such resistance shows a “bewildering lack of understanding… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Ofsted watch: Tough week with one employer provider crashing to a grade four It has been a tough week for FE as one provider was hit with ‘inadequate’ and three others found… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News UCU elects general secretary Jo Grady has been elected the new general secretary of the University and College Union, though on a turnout… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Statistics watchdog ‘content’ with DfE including unreliable data in achievement rate tables The country’s national statistics regulator has given the DfE achievement rate data a clean bill of health but called… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Exclusive T-level students in rural areas still at disadvantage, despite DfE ‘tinkering’ The flexibilities added to the controversial industry placement in T-levels are “helpful” but they still leave rural counties at… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Exclusive DfE’s double standards over level 2 business admin apprenticeship The Department for Education has been accused of double standards after it launched a recruitment drive for level 2… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Exclusive ‘We were genuinely shocked by what we found’ The FE Commissioner, Richard Atkins, was due to visit West Kent and Ashford College following their Ofsted grade three… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y Newer 1 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 830 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
