News Achievement rates at Learndirect fall under minimum standards The nation’s largest FE provider has been badly shaken by the changes in the way achievement rates are calculated,… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News Exclusive Prison education reforms on hold for another year Reforms to prison education seem to be back on hold, as existing offender learning contracts are being extended for… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News NCG and others blame IT ‘glitches’ for achievement rates table absence Providers have blamed “data glitches” for their absence from the latest national achievement rate tables. The five colleges and… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News Exclusive Colleges in dark over data reporting rule Many colleges aren’t managing to fulfil their legal duties to publish 16-to-18 performance data – apparently because they don’t… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Ofsted watch: Local authority provider shakes off inadequate rating A council-run adult and community learning provider has managed to shake off its previous inadequate rating this week, going… Jude Burke 8y Jude Burke 8y News Ofsted chief stresses ‘real challenge’ with apprenticeships register Ofsted’s chief inspector has reiterated the “real challenge” faced by the education watchdog following the influx of new training… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Gold standard for 14 colleges with HE teaching Fourteen FE colleges have achieved gold status for higher education teaching in the first ever Teaching Excellence Framework ratings…. Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Terminated: Government bans major levy provider after FE Week exposé A major training provider claiming to have £130m of apprenticeship levy business has had its contract with the ESFA… Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Festival of Skills: Apprenticeship starts ‘a quarter’ of what they were before May Members of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers have reported apprenticeship starts in May falling to around a… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News Festival of Skills: Start assessing as apprentices begin, providers told Providers need to assess new apprentices’ skills as soon as they begin training in order to establish a baseline… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News Second consecutive grade four Ofsted for previously ‘outstanding’ college A former ‘outstanding’ college has been hit with a second consecutive ‘inadequate’ rating from Ofsted in just 15 months…. Billy Camden 8y Billy Camden 8y News Government urged to do more to rescue struggling UTCs Far more needs to be done by the government to support its struggling University Technical Colleges programme, a new… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y Newer 1 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 833 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
