News SPONSORED: How to prepare for the new data protection laws Demand from our further education members for information and advice on the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has… Features Team 8y Features Team 8y News Milton to launch national Year of Engineering Update, 11am, January 15: The Department for Education called FE Week to say that the minister’s visit to the National… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Chartered status: when will the government subsidies end? The Chartered Institution for Further Education, the brainchild of the former skills minister John Hayes, was first conceived back… Nick Linford 8y Nick Linford 8y News Exclusive Anger as ESFA dodges MPs’ scrutiny on subcontracting fees The government has been accused of shocking double standards on transparency, admitting it probably won’t publish its long-delayed findings… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Nescot accepts former £360k a year principal was unfairly dismissed A college has accepted that its former principal Sunaina Mann was unfairly constructively dismissed, after she brought her case… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Could Hinds’ experience make T-levels work? Damian Hinds has been appointed as the new education secretary and, with a background including responsibility for youth employment… Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y News Ofsted watch: Two providers climb out of ‘inadequate’ but one slumps the other way Two training providers pulled themselves away from ‘inadequate’ ratings this week, but one went the other way and plummeted… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Exclusive Government search site is flooded with hundreds of ‘locations’ for the same providers Training providers are flooding the government’s Find Apprenticeship Training website with hundreds of locations they have no permanent presence… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Exclusive Non-levy tender appeals are lucky for some Multiple providers have successfully overturned the government’s decisions not to award them contracts in the controversial non-levy tender –… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Atkins’ aides: Principals appointed to advise DfE A crack team of seven top principals has been chosen by the FE commissioner to advise government officials on… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Struggling college awarded £21m to make merger work A struggling college received a massive £21 million bailout from the government as part of its recent merger deal,… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Exclusive Was government support of Learndirect sale legal? > MPs demand answers over ESFA approving sale of Learndirect Apprenticeships in 2016 > PAC inquiry to quiz Ofsted… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y Newer 1 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 829 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