News 14 colleges receive cash from the strategic improvement fund Fourteen general FE and sixth-form colleges have received grants through a fund designed to support failing colleges to improve… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Ofsted watch: Two providers pull up from ‘inadequate’ Two providers managed to pull themselves up from grade four this week – one to ‘good’ and the other… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News 32 adult learning projects share £11.7 million fund The projects which will share a £11.7 million fund to help more adults back into the classroom have been… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y 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 Newer 1 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 833 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