Higher education

OfS closes HE register and puts new degree powers on ice

Regulator shuts register and closes applications for degree awarding powers until August 2025 to focus on financial struggles of…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
T Levels

DfE eases T Level work placement rules to boost take up

Ministers announce measures to extend hybrid working and ‘cut red tape’ for employers and colleges

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Strikes

Sixth form college teachers add 4 more days of strike action

NEU says members ‘will not back down’ from pay dispute with government

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Day in the life, Long read

A day in the life of an ESOL teacher

The role is about so much more than teaching the language

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Teaching awards

Revealed: The 2024 Pearson Teaching Awards winners

Sixteen winners from early years, schools and colleges recognised

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Ofsted

Ofsted chair Dame Christine Ryan to step down

Education secretary praises Ryan for leadership during ‘a period of significant challenges’

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey


Apprenticeships

Off-the-job ‘confusion’ sparks apprentice mental health warning

Apprentices struggling with anxiety and stress from job and college demands, survey finds

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Strikes

Restructure triggers fresh UCU staff strikes

UCU claims strike action ‘undermines’ efforts to solve internal dispute

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Multiply

Multiply subtracted: Sunak’s flagship maths scheme to end

DfE confirms public subsidy for the programme will cease next year

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships

Ditching level 7 apprenticeships saves £240m, MPs told

Spending figures from 2017 to 2024 revealed

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

Pearson and colleges agree truce over GCSE resits row

Plans for a judicial review over this summer’s grade boundary hike have been dropped

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Pay, Strikes

Sixth form college teachers march on Westminster

Union members take pay fight to DfE HQ

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel

Must read

16-19

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

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
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, 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
Jessica Hill