Apprenticeships

Pair of Swiss-owned training providers suddenly close

Thousands of apprentices affected as Woodspeen Training and Jarvis Training Management announce insolvency

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

New ‘school profiles’ to be explored for colleges

DfE will pilot the ‘one-stop shop’ tool this year

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
EuroSkills 2025

EuroSkills 2025: Competition opened by WorldSkills UK chief

EuroSkills champions carry the ‘promise of Europe’s future’ amid climate crisis and changing technologies

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Ofsted

Ofsted overhaul: What you need to know about new-style inspections

More grades and more data – Ofsted’s report cards confirmed

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Ofsted

Ofsted tweaks colour-coded scale and FE graded areas

But unions criticise ‘minor and cosmetic’ report card changes while an independent review warns ‘stress’ and ‘high stakes’ won’t…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

Five defence technical excellence colleges to open by 2026

A package of defence initiatives also includes an apprenticeship clearing system and skills passports

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor


Politics

Reshuffle: 15 facts about new education ministers

Three MPs from the class of ’24 have joined the education ministerial team – here’s what you need to…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Colleges

Colleges reclaim £2.8m ahead of landmark VAT case 

The outcome of an appeal case next year could cost colleges millions

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

Don’t return to ‘punitive’ intervention, colleges tell new FE Commissioner

Reformed Ofsted inspections, college staff shortages and a new post-16 strategy face the new FE Commissioner Ellen Thinnesen

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics

Reshuffle: Two-bosses Smith stays on skills

McKinnell, Daby and Morgan out, Gould, Bailey and MacAlister in

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
EuroSkills 2025

Team UK on the start line for EuroSkills 2025

19 students and apprentices will compete in the European finals next week

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Politics

Reshuffle: Skills brief to move out of DfE

New ‘growth department’ expected to be created following Keir Starmer’s reshuffle

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

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