News Exclusive Overspend: GLA warns of risk to AEB devo project The Greater London Authority has denied that devolution of the adult education budget is at risk due to spiralling… Jessica Fino 7y Jessica Fino 7y News Exclusive It’s FE Week wot won it: 5 month mystery of missing £300k levy ‘resolved’ by ESFA The Education and Skills Funding Agency has finally returned £300,000 to a large high-profile employer within hours of FE… Jessica Fino 7y Jessica Fino 7y News Third of apprentices on standards not ready for planned end-point assessment in 2017/18 One-third of apprentices on standards were not ready for their planned end-point assessment last year, the government has revealed…. Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Exclusive Investigation by statistics watchdog after ESFA lists ‘unreliable’ providers The country’s national statistics regulator is investigating whether the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s apprenticeship achievement rate data can… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News AoC ‘disappointed’ local sustainability reviews won’t include schools The Association of Colleges has criticised the Department for Education’s new local area reviews for not including small “non-viable”… Fraser Whieldon 7y Fraser Whieldon 7y News Tenth UTC closure announced Yet another university technical college will close later this year, taking the total to 10 for the troubled programme…. Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News ESFA apologises over apprenticeship off-the-job calculation blunder The Education and Skills Funding Agency has apologised for causing confusion in its off-the-job training rule and updated its… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Training provider director jailed for 8 months for fraud A former director of a training provider that falsified exam papers for individuals seeking to gain security guard licenses… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Minister admits a lot ‘we don’t know yet’ about Treasury backed national retraining scheme The government still doesn’t know how the national retraining scheme will work or how much it will cost, even… Jessica Fino 7y Jessica Fino 7y News Select committee chair and skills minister clash over Spending Review strategy The skills minister and the chair of the education select committee were at loggerheads this morning after Anne Milton… Fraser Whieldon 7y Fraser Whieldon 7y News Short-term fix found for gap in apprenticeship quality assurance arrangements The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has reached a deal with the organisation that has delivered external quality… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Minimum standards to be scrapped as part of earlier and stronger intervention regime The Education and Skills Funding Agency is going to scrap its minimum standards policy as part of an earlier… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y Newer 1 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 851 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 10h Shane Chowen 10h 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
