News Conservatives announce surprise pledge to let levy pay wages A surprise move has been made by the Conservatives to allow large firms to use apprentice levy funds to… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Breaking: Conservative manifesto pledges for FE and skills published The Conservatives’ long-awaited general election manifesto, called ‘Forward Together’, has just been launched, outlining its plans for FE and… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Breaking: Updated register of apprenticeship training providers published The updated register of apprenticeship training providers has now been published. An extra 507 providers have been added by… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Exclusive Exclusive: Providers finally successful in apprentice register applications Hundreds of providers including a college from the nation’s second largest city, which largely missed out last time, have… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Just three new recruits for chartered status in six months The Chartered Institution for FE has recruited just one new college and two independent training providers in the last… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News Lib Dems pledge to double businesses that hire apprentices A pledge to double the number of businesses that hire apprentices has been announced by the Liberal Democrats, ahead… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Subsidised apprentice travel plan falls off Labour manifesto A long-term pledge to cover the cost of apprentice travel has not made it into Labour’s final general election… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Colleges scrap merger plans less than 3 months after announced Two colleges have scrapped merger plans less than three months after they were announced. Stanmore College and West Hertfordshire… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Breaking: Labour manifesto plans for FE and skills unveiled Labour has unveiled its plans for the future of FE and skills in its official general election manifesto just… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News Pay cut row at struggling north east college Staff are understood to be facing up to 10 per cent pay cuts at a north east college with… Paul Offord 8y Paul Offord 8y News C&G Group buys apprenticeship agency in effort to corner nuclear industry The nation’s largest training provider to the UK civil nuclear industry has been bought out by the City &… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News Colleges not on apprenticeships’ register still advertising vacancies High-profile colleges that failed to get onto the government’s new register of apprenticeship training providers the first time round… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y Newer 1 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 813 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 1w Jessica Hill 1w 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
