News Ofsted watch: An encouraging week for FE and skills An adult and community learning provider has boosted its grade to ‘good’ in a positive week for the FE… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News Institutes of Technology hit by mystery delays The Institutes of Technology have already fallen behind schedule, and providers who applied to open one still don’t know… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News Ofsted: Apprenticeships are beginning to look like Train to Gain The quality of apprenticeships is in decline, Ofsted has said, and the programmes are starting to resemble the doomed… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Exclusive Principals blast London’s £3m adult education budget top-slice London college bosses have hit out at London’s mayor Sadiq Khan after FE week revealed he plans to top-slice… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News ESFA switches from intervention to prevention The Education and Skills Funding Agency is switching its strategy from intervention to prevention, ahead of the introduction of… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News Care leavers earn £1,000 apprenticeship bursary Young care leavers starting an apprenticeship from August will receive a one-off bursary of £1,000. It’s one of a… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News 20% funding uplift for 16-to-18 apprentices stays another year Extra payments to providers training the youngest and most disadvantaged apprentices will remain in place from August, the Department… Paul Offord 7y Paul Offord 7y News ‘Sector-leading’ 6% pay deal agreed at Sandwell College A new “sector-leading” pay agreement – amounting to more than six per cent over three years – has been… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Extra £500 per learner through maths teaching pilot Providers in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country will be given an extra £500 per learner… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News Careers and Enterprise Company begs ‘friends’ for positive tweets following criticism from MPs Supporters of the Careers and Enterprise Company have been urged to tweet their backing for the under-fire organisation after… Paul Offord 7y Paul Offord 7y News Dismay after rail specialist chosen as quality-assurer for digital apprenticeships A firm of rail specialists have been chosen to replace the Tech Partnership as the external quality-assurance provider for… Paul Offord 7y Paul Offord 7y News Apprenticeship starts show biggest drop in six months Apprenticeship starts were down a massive 40 per cent in February on the same period in 2017, the latest… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y Newer 1 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 814 Older Must read 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 2w Jessica Hill 2w 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
