News Somerset provider reopens courses after major AEB increase – but it’s still £1m short A large community learning provider in Somerset has reopened courses today after the government granted it substantial extra emergency… Nick Linford 8y Nick Linford 8y News Greening announces 27 new degree apprenticeship projects, but no new money UPDATE: HEFCE has now announced details of the 27 projects on its website. We’ve alerted the DfE ———————————————————————————————————— Justine Greening… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News DfE confirms HE fee policy change WILL apply to FE loans The government’s proposed rise in the repayment threshold for student loans will apply to FE loans, it has been… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Exclusive ESFA finds additional AEB funding in effort to solve tender chaos The ESFA has confirmed it has found additional adult education budget funding and sent out letters to relevant independent… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Exclusive DfE to announce solution to AEB tender chaos later today UPDATE: An hour after publishing this article the ESFA sent out electronic letters confirming the additional AEB funding (click… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Review of apprentice provider list planned The government is already planning to review its register of apprenticeship training providers, but not until the new window… Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y 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 Newer 1 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 821 Older Must read 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Billy Camden 4mo Colleges 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 5mo Anviksha Patel 5mo