Apprenticeships, Politics Badenoch: I’ll double apprenticeships budget by slashing uni degrees Leader of the opposition would reintroduce student number controls for ‘poor quality’ uni courses to fund apprenticeship boost Shane Chowen 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo Colleges £31k FE teacher training bursaries to continue in 2026-27 Experts say bursaries are ‘very effective for recruiting more teachers and retaining additional teachers long-term’ amid Labour’s 6.5k pledge Billy Camden 1mo Billy Camden 1mo Ofsted ‘Inadequate’ apprenticeship provider accuses Ofsted of creating ‘state of fear’ The firm unsuccessfully contested the rating Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Governance, Long read Investigation To pay or not to pay? The ‘divisive’ question of college governor remuneration Relying on unpaid volunteers to hold college executive teams to account is either an important matter of principle or… Jessica Hill 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo Colleges More than half of Turing trips turned down The government also underspent its budget despite a one-third cut Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Colleges UCU launches England-wide college strike ballot The Association of Colleges says the union’s 10 per cent pay rise demand is unaffordable Josh Mellor 1mo Josh Mellor 1mo Higher education DfE removes funding to develop HTQ courses The fund aimed to boost uptake of higher level technical qualifications Josh Mellor 1mo Josh Mellor 1mo Colleges CCC teachers begin strikes over sixth-form pay freeze Their pay could be frozen for up to 3 years until a ‘discrepancy’ between their salaries and the rest… Josh Mellor 1mo Josh Mellor 1mo Sponsored post Sponsored Supporting the UK’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan Through Skills The UK Government’s Decarbonising Transport: A Better, Greener Britain strategy sets a legally binding path towards a net-zero transport… Advertorial 1mo Sabre Rigs 1mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Starmer swerves a deadline for headline ‘two-thirds’ target ‘If there’s no date for people to work towards, then it’s just a vague aspiration’, says ex-SpAd Billy Camden 1mo Billy Camden 1mo 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 Apprenticeships £100bn digital ID contract is a Blair faced lie, says Multiverse ‘We are not an app provider, even for £100 billion…’ Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Newer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 833 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
