Apprenticeships, skills

Apprenticeship and Training Awards 2025 officially launched

The renamed awards will include a fresh set of categories showcasing sustainability, diversity and innovation

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
AEB, Devolution

Adult training axed to avoid court fights, authority admits

Training contracts targeted at the unemployed and low skilled have been delayed until January

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

College’s out-of-court deal ends legal fight

Terms of the settlement remain unknown

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
skills

Mayors in spending panic to beat £2.6bn skills cash deadline

Some regions have lost out on millions after failing to spend fast enough in the scheme’s earlier years

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
News

Colleges ordered to fill out schools wellbeing survey

Children’s commissioner uses statutory powers to collect data on the provision and barriers to supporting young people

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
WorldSkills, WorldSkills 2024, WorldSkills UK

Team UK get a confidence boost from day 2

French students and Team UK families descend upon WorldSkills competition

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel


Colleges

Search begins for college social action champions

Nominations for second Good for Me Good for FE awards now open

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Politics

Helen Hayes elected education committee chair

SEND reform, child poverty and a ‘fit-for-purpose’ skills system are on Hayes’ agenda

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
WorldSkills 2024, WorldSkills UK

Team UK off to strong start on day 1 of WorldSkills Lyon

Some nerves and a mix of confidence makes for a fairly smooth start to first day of competition

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Pay, Strikes

Strike ballot to launch for sixth form college teachers after pay snub

Ministers have extended the 5.5% school teacher pay award to sixth form colleges, but only those that have academised

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Politics, Skills reform

ESFA to close in March 2025

Another education-related quango bites the dust with agency’s functions to be absorbed by DfE

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
WorldSkills 2024, WorldSkills UK

Macron declares WorldSkills 2024 officially open

Macron led rousing speeches, Team UK flew the flag in front of thousands and much more from the opening…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel

Must read

Long read, Prison education

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
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, FE Commissioner

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel
Adult education, ITPs

Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers

Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor