News Editor asks: Can mega colleges ever be too big to fail? With colleges across the country pressured into mega-mergers and the government dishing out special treatment to the ailing FE… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Exclusive Details of new T-level tendering timeline revealed The Department for Education is moving forward with a detailed new timetable for the implementation of T-levels, FE Week… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News First4Skills: what happened after its disastrous collapse? The apprenticeships giant First4Skills went bust in March after its skills funding was pulled due to an ‘inadequate’ Ofsted… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Exclusive Revealed: £200m adult education budget underspend FE providers failed to spend a giant chunk of the adult education budget over the past academic year. A… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Learndirect Apprenticeships tries to avoid the past with major rebrand A firm set up by Learndirect as a separate entity to run its apprenticeships division has begun a significant… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Labour conference: Corbyn to tackle automation jobs threat with free FE Jeremy Corbyn will pledge to tackle the threat to jobs from automation by offering free tuition for all FE… Nick Linford 8y Nick Linford 8y News Grenfell community rage over college sell-off Leaders of a college that sold its main campus to make way for housing ahead of a planned merger… Nick Linford 8y Nick Linford 8y News Rayner pledges £1bn for FE to deliver T-levels The Labour Party has pledged to invest one billion pounds to deliver T-levels, as its shadow education secretary spelt… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News FE principals angry with academy chain small sixth form plans Two FE principals are up in arms over a planned new academy-chain small school sixth form, which they claim… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Halfon questions costly employer perspectives survey The chair of the influential Commons education select committee has questioned the worth of the employer perspectives survey, which… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Exclusive Revealed: How to get the DfE Institute of Technology kite-mark UPDATE: The Department for Education has now confirmed they’ve published documents launching the IoT invitations on the lep network… Nick Linford 8y Nick Linford 8y News Top civil servant announced as new apprenticeships boss A civil servant who led the Department for Education’s response to the Grenfell Tower blaze has been appointed as… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y Newer 1 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 814 Older Must read 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 2w Jessica Hill 2w 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe Anviksha Patel 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Colleges Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying… Anviksha Patel 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo T Levels NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students Anviksha Patel 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
