WorldSkills 2024

WorldSkills 2024: How to watch the closing ceremony

It’s nearly time to announce the WorldSkills 2024 medal winners

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, skills

Apprenticeship and Training Awards 2025 officially launched

The renamed awards will include a fresh set of categories showcasing sustainability, diversity and innovation

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Adult education, Devolution

Adult training axed to avoid court fights, authority admits

Training contracts targeted at the unemployed and low skilled have been delayed until January

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

College’s out-of-court deal ends legal fight

Terms of the settlement remain unknown

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
skills

Mayors in spending panic to beat £2.6bn skills cash deadline

Some regions have lost out on millions after failing to spend fast enough in the scheme’s earlier years

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
News

Colleges ordered to fill out schools wellbeing survey

Children’s commissioner uses statutory powers to collect data on the provision and barriers to supporting young people

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


WorldSkills, WorldSkills 2024, WorldSkills UK

Team UK get a confidence boost from day 2

French students and Team UK families descend upon WorldSkills competition

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Search begins for college social action champions

Nominations for second Good for Me Good for FE awards now open

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Politics

Helen Hayes elected education committee chair

SEND reform, child poverty and a ‘fit-for-purpose’ skills system are on Hayes’ agenda

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
WorldSkills 2024, WorldSkills UK

Team UK off to strong start on day 1 of WorldSkills Lyon

Some nerves and a mix of confidence makes for a fairly smooth start to first day of competition

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Pay, Strikes

Strike ballot to launch for sixth form college teachers after pay snub

Ministers have extended the 5.5% school teacher pay award to sixth form colleges, but only those that have academised

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Politics, Skills reform

ESFA to close in March 2025

Another education-related quango bites the dust with agency’s functions to be absorbed by DfE

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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