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 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 Newer 1 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 833 Older Must read 16-19 Long read 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 6d Anviksha Patel 6d 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 2w Shane Chowen 2w Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 3w Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 3w Next 3 stories 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo
