News T-level employer panel members for 2022 and 2023 This morning the Department for Education published the list of T-level employer panel members for the routes that will… FE Week Reporter 7y FE Week Reporter 7y News 57 staff already appointed to the London Mayor’s £3m AEB team The Greater London Authority has so far drafted in 57 new bureaucrats to handle the capital’s adult education budget… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Ofsted watch: ‘Good’ news for a UTC and new apprenticeship providers There was cause for celebration at a university technical college this week as it was rated ‘good’, while four… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News NCG tackles casual staff contracts The nation’s largest college group has been praised for tackling “insecure” staff contracts, after it unveiled plans to move… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Exclusive IfA funding band review: Aviation standard set to have rate doubled An apprenticeship standard is set to have its funding band doubled following the Institute for Apprenticeships’ recent review. The… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News ESFA hiring team to focus on audit and intervention at private training providers The Education and Skills Funding Agency is to focus on intervention and prevention in independent training providers following a… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News College and Co-op lead way with paid day release on two year course – but it’s not an apprenticeship A sixth-form college in Manchester is set to offer paid work experience for some of its learners, in what… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News EuroSkills 2018: Team UK given send-off at Parliament “Endurance, fortitude and determination” are the qualities that each member of Team UK will need to beat Europe’s best,… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News AoC proposes introduction of HE levy to pay for developing new suite of higher level qualifications The government should fund the development of new higher level qualifications, paid for by a “higher technical levy” or… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Ofqual U-turns on T-level plans that would have forced students to wait a year for a retake Ofqual will allow T-level exams to be taken more than once throughout the assessment year – meaning students will… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News T-levels tender launched by Department for Education The highly anticipated and controversial T-levels tender process has now been launched by the Department for Education. Awarding organisations… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News T-level industry placements ‘likely’ to reduce apprenticeship offers, new DfE commissioned research finds Substantial T-level industry placements are expected to reduce the number of apprenticeships that employers offer, new Department for Education… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y Newer 1 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 830 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 12h Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 12h 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