News Glacial progress exposed for colleges’ apprentice delivery Colleges deliver just one in five apprenticeships last year, meaning virtually no progress has been made in the 18… Paul Offord 9y Paul Offord 9y 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 9y Jude Burke 9y 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 9y Jude Burke 9y 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 9y Paul Offord 9y 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 9y Jude Burke 9y 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 9y Alix Robertson 9y 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 9y Paul Offord 9y 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 9y Paul Offord 9y 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 9y Jude Burke 9y 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 9y Paul Offord 9y 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 9y Paul Offord 9y 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 9y Alix Robertson 9y Newer 1 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 836 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 4w Anviksha Patel 4w 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo 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 1mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 1mo 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 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo
