News Exclusive Charity set to announce purchase of People 1st UPDATE: The Workforce Development Trust has confirmed the acquisition of People 1st. However, the Institute for Apprenticeships has said… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News Exclusive Apprenticeship qualifications: no uptake under new rules No employer groups have taken advantage of the Institute for Apprenticeships’ new rules for including qualifications in apprenticeships, FE… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News Exclusive IfA in talks with charity to take on EQA role after People 1st goes bust The Institute for Apprenticeships is understood to be close to reaching a deal with an organisation to take over… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News College that needed huge bailouts set to merge A college that has received millions of pounds in government bailouts has announced plans to merge. Accrington and Rossendale… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News AoC Sport National Championships: The south-east triumphs again The south-east took the glory for the second year running at last weekend’s AoC Sport National Championships, retaining the… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Ofsted Watch: Royal Navy apprenticeships are ‘outstanding’ Everything about skills training at the Royal Navy is shipshape and Bristol fashion, after Ofsted judged the employer provider… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Mucklow tackles AEB devolution as director roles change at ESFA The director of Young People and former sixth-form college commissioner has been given the mammoth task of devolving the… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Exclusive Fresh round of redundancies at Learndirect as funding dries up Learndirect Ltd appears to be on the brink of collapse, after a fresh round of redundancies belied the fact… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Special investigation: Why are colleges turning their backs on traineeships? Colleges delivered less than a quarter of traineeships last year and nearly half across the country had no starts… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News UCU blasts 10% pay rises for ‘greedy’ college principals College principals have been lambasted as “greedy and hopelessly out of touch” by the University and College Union, after… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Exclusive People 1st collapses, stunning the FE sector People 1st, once a major sector skills council and a key player in the apprenticeship reforms, has entered administration,… Paul Offord 7y Paul Offord 7y News Apprenticeship payments system breakdown finally ‘resolved’ The government claims to have finally fixed its malfunctioning apprenticeship payments reporting system, more than two weeks after it… Paul Offord 7y Paul Offord 7y Newer 1 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 830 Older Must read 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 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 Next 3 stories 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 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 6mo Billy Camden 6mo