News New skills minister brings welcome news as apprenticeship reforms suffer slow start The new skills minister, Anne Milton, has announced that the non-levy growth requests will be brought forward to July, at the… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Merger collapse makes it a dozen area review failures Yet another merger recommended in the area reviews has collapsed, as a planned link-up between two colleges in the… Jude Burke 9y Jude Burke 9y News DfE publish long awaited off-the-job training guidance This morning the Department for Education published additional guidance on the 20 percent off-the-job training rule for apprenticeships. Click… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y 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 9y Alix Robertson 9y 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 9y Jude Burke 9y 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 9y Alix Robertson 9y 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 9y Jude Burke 9y 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 9y Jude Burke 9y 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 9y Billy Camden 9y 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 9y Billy Camden 9y 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 9y Billy Camden 9y 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 9y Alix Robertson 9y Newer 1 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 851 Older Must read Colleges, Politics Exclusive Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’ The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords… Jessica Hill 2w Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund 2w Colleges, Long read Investigation Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,… Jessica Hill 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo Colleges, Long read Exclusive Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo Next 3 stories Young people 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 5mo Shane Chowen 5mo 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 5mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 5mo
