Politics

Laura Trott appointed shadow education secretary

MP for Sevenoaks and former chief secretary to the Treasury tapped by Kemi Badenoch to lead Conservative education team

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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The college roadmap to AI maturity – and a reskilled workforce

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News

TikTok and AI boost informal adult learning levels, survey finds

But the Learning and Work Institute says there should be routes to formal learning for all who want them

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships

Multicultural Apprenticeship Award winners 2024 revealed

A record number of finalists and guests celebrated 30 winning apprentices, training providers and employers at this evening’s ceremony…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Colleges

Merger partner found for troubled Somerset college

Partnership aims to secure the long-term financial sustainability of Strode College

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Politics

Budget 2024: What the chancellor announced for FE and skills

Additional funding committed to further education and apprenticeships as national insurance and minimum wages rise

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Politics

Budget 2024: Lifelong learning entitlement delayed again

Fundable higher education courses will now not start until January 2027

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics

Budget 2024: Extra £300m for FE

Shorter and foundation apprenticeships to also get £40m next year

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships, Politics

Apprentice minimum wage to rise to £7.55

New rate will apply from April 2025, chancellor set to announce at tomorrow’s budget

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Politics

Revealed: The new education committee membership

11 MPs selected for influential committee that holds the Department for Education to account

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

Streamlined skills and jobseeker support to cut ‘ballooning’ benefits bill

Chancellor also vows to ‘protect’ education priorities at Wednesday’s budget

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor

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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
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
Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

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
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden