News FE Commissioner’s annual report encourages colleges to use £700m bailout fund while they can Financially struggling colleges should seek bailouts from the restructuring fund while they still can, the FE commissioner has said… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News NUS president Shakira Martin engulfed in ‘bullying’ row A row has erupted in the upper echelons of the National Union of Students, as its president wants to… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Stafford MP Jeremy Lefroy wades into non-levy row Colleges must all have access to funding for apprenticeships with smaller employers, according to the latest MP to weigh… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Carillion apprentices WILL be paid after January, DfE confirms Any former Carillion apprentice who is yet to find alternative employment following the collapse of the outsourcing giant will… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Manchester Creative Studio will be 18th studio school to close A struggling studio school with low pupil numbers and “significant financial challenges” will close this summer, it has been… Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y News No right to fully-funded digital skills training until 2020 A change to adult education funding rules that will put digital skills training on a par with English and… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Exclusive AoC demands colleges are omitted from ‘misleading’ school progress data The AoC wants colleges to be excluded from the government’s published progress data claiming it is based on school… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Milton promises to find ‘the right solution’ for ‘precious’ Kensington and Chelsea College The furore surrounding the future of a west London college in the shadow of the Grenfell Tower has made… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Carillion apprentices will not be paid after January, report claims Apprentices left jobless following the collapse of outsourcing giant Carillion will not be paid after January, it has been… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Victory for Grenfell campaigners as FE Commissioner scraps colleges’ merger A merger between two London colleges has been called off following direct intervention from the FE commissioner, triggered by… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Exclusive Ofsted revisits grade three college amid signs of falling standards A huge college rocked by a string of senior leadership departures that’s currently rated ‘requires improvement’ by Ofsted has… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Exclusive Government loophole allows apprenticeship brokerage to continue Taking fees for brokering apprenticeship funding is acceptable, according to correspondence from the Skills Funding Agency – as long… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y Newer 1 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 829 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 2w Shane Chowen 2w 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