News Robert Halfon questions key principle behind new T-levels The former skills minister has appeared to question the whole design principle behind the government’s plan for prestigious new… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Studio schools to cut ties with FE colleges The controversial studio schools programme has announced a dramatic shift in focus after the tally of those closed or… Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y News Ofsted watch: Ambulance trust fares well in early monitoring visit The first employer provider to have received an apprenticeship early monitoring visit resulted in a positive report, in this… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Exclusive Leicester city council in row over ‘brokerage-style’ levy deal Leicester city council is the latest public body accused of diverting apprenticeship levy funding away from frontline learning via… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Governors ‘abrogated’ responsibilities at inadequate Medway UTC The governors of a university technical college have been slammed for “abrogating” their responsibilities, in yet another damning Ofsted… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News College with huge bailout debt pays principal over £265k A college owes the government almost £14 million in emergency bailout cash alone, but it still managed to scrape… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Exclusive Special investigation: The fallout from mass exam reversal Thousands of young people are having their recent exam failures reversed, thanks to a change in the design of… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Exclusive Stephenson College challenged over £100,000 tactical subcontracting A college that charged up to 57 per cent in management fees has been found to be attempting to… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News ‘Unsafe’ Moulton College appoints safe pair of hands as interim principal A troubled Northamptonshire college has appointed a familiar face as an interim leader after its principal resigned in the… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News London mega-merger to create England’s third biggest college group Moves are afoot to create one of the largest college groups in the country by joining four institutions from… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Anne Milton hasn’t met the IfA’s apprentice panel in its first year The skills minister has still not met with the Institute for Apprenticeships’ panel of apprentices – more than 12… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News UTC architect George Osborne says 14 start age ‘hasn’t worked’ George Osborne, who as chancellor was one of the driving forces behind university technical colleges, would consider scrapping the… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y Newer 1 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 833 Older Must read 16-19 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 6d Anviksha Patel 6d 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 2w Shane Chowen 2w 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 3w Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 3w Next 3 stories 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo
