News Skills minister Anne Milton resigns Apprenticeships and skills minister Anne Milton has resigned from government. She announced the move on Twitter ahead of the… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News WorldSkills 2019: Meet Team UK With the WorldSkills 2019 competition only a month away, we introduce the 37 members of Team UK that’ll be… Fraser Whieldon 7y Fraser Whieldon 7y News Victory for Grenfell campaigners as government pledges £32.3m to buy back college campus The government has pledged up to £32.3 million to help buy back a college campus that serves the community… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News DfE confirms popular BTECs amongst qualifications facing funding axe More than 160 “duplicate qualifications” at level 3 and below will have their funding removed from August 2020 –… Simon Kay 7y Simon Kay 7y News Ofsted watch: Unimpressive week for new private providers Five early monitoring reports for independent providers returned ‘insufficient’ ratings this week, with Ofsted finding some have not recruited… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News MPs urge DfE to ‘urgently’ raise the 16-18 rate and develop a 10-year funding plan The government must “urgently address the damage that has been done” to FE by raising the 16 to 18… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Six things we learned from the IfATE’s 2018/19 accounts The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has today published its annual accounts for 2018/19. This is only the… Fraser Whieldon 7y Fraser Whieldon 7y News Eleventh UTC to close after student numbers almost halve An ‘inadequate’ university technical college is to close just four years after opening as it is “no longer financially… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Hard to believe? Ofsted found apprentices and their employers did not know they were on the programme A private provider has been slammed by Ofsted after it found learners and their employers unaware they were taking… Fraser Whieldon 7y Fraser Whieldon 7y News Ofsted misses FE inspection target by more than 10% Ofsted missed its inspection target for FE providers by 11 per cent this year – the biggest miss out… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Former principal of Bournville College was referred to police for operating fraudulently The principal of a collapsed college was referred to the police after his assistant principal wife benefited from a… Fraser Whieldon 7y Fraser Whieldon 7y News Revealed: Learner satisfaction scores for 2018/19 Overall learner satisfaction with FE providers slightly increased this year, according to new government figures. The Department for Education… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y Newer 1 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 851 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 16h Shane Chowen 16h 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
