News Monthly update: apprenticeship starts down 23 per cent in December UPDATED: To ensure we’re comparing like with like, the table has been updated to include provisional figures from August… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Three senior Team Wearside staff jailed for £460,000 fraud An ex-chief executive of a training provider and two of her former colleagues have been sentenced to a total… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Shakira Martin re-elected as NUS president FE champion Shakira Martin (pictured above) has survived a row over allegations of bullying to be re-elected as president… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Federation of Awarding Bodies appoints Tom Bewick as new chief executive The Federation of Awarding Bodies has announced skills and enterprise policy expert Tom Bewick as its new chief executive… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Guildford College to join Activate Learning A cash-strapped college that was forced to seek a merger after it became only the second institution to return… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Applications open for nine new T-level employer panels Representatives from business are being asked to apply to join panels that will help develop new T-levels. The Department for… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Second wave of college strikes over pay begins today The second wave of strike action by University and College Union members has begun, in an ongoing dispute over… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Learndirect’s second Ofsted monitoring visit: 15 key findings The second monitoring visit report on crisis-hit Learndirect has been published by Ofsted. This was the second reinspection monitoring… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Bids to open for share of new construction retraining fund in April Bidding is to open next month for a share of a new construction retraining fund worth tens of millions… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News First Ofsted subcontracting visit report criticises Wigan and Leigh College The first ever report of an Ofsted monitoring visit into subcontracting has found that governors and senior management at… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Exclusive More traineeships are leading to apprenticeships The proportion of young people who complete a traineeship and move on to an apprenticeship has risen but it… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Ofsted Watch: Encouraging week for adult and community learning providers A strong week for adult and community learning providers saw three climb up from ‘requires improvement’ ratings. Slough Pitstop… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y Newer 1 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 830 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