News Sector skills councils merge — but ‘business as usual’ as both continue acting separately The sector skills councils for health and for justice today announced their merger — but also said they would… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News ‘Resit levy’ on schools should ease ‘extreme funding pressures’ on colleges, think tank report claims Further education colleges struggling to cope with an influx of maths and English GCSE resit students should get extra… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Greenwich Community College to ‘merge into’ Bromley College of Further and Higher Education Plans have been announced for struggling Greenwich Community College to “merge into” Bromley College of Further and Higher Education…. FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Former FE college principal named as chair of new steering group for adult skills funding reforms A former principal of two colleges has been named as chair of a new steering group set up by… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Stockton-based FE college joins with independent learning provider after 18 months of talks Stockton Riverside College has merged with independent learning provider (ILP) the NETA (formerly North East Training Association) Training Trust… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Apprenticeship levy consultation fails to include ‘critical issues’, says CBI The UK’s leading employers’ organisation has criticised the government’s new apprenticeship levy consultation for failing to explore the cost… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News AELP questions sense of GCSE maths and English resits after fall in pass rate for 17-year-olds The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has questioned the sense of forcing resits on learners who fail… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Number of young people not in education, employment or training falls again Latest official statistics have shown the proportion of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) in the… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Ten new Careers Colleges set to open at existing FE colleges Six FE colleges are preparing to open 10 new Careers Colleges over the next two academic years, with the… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Charity wants employers that train young care leavers to get higher returns from apprenticeship levy A charity has called for employers that train young care leavers to receive a larger financial return on planned… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Young benefits claimants who can’t find work will be forced onto apprenticeships or traineeships The government’s new Earn or Learn Taskforce will oversee plans to force young benefits claimants onto apprenticeships or traineeships… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Sao Paulo you beauty! Triple UK gold crowned with best WorldSkills competitor first Three golds were crowned with an illustrious first for TeamUK as beauty therapist Rianne Chester was handed the award… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y Newer 1 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 643 829 Older Must read 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 2w Shane Chowen 2w 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 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo Long read, Prison education Long read 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 6mo Billy Camden 6mo
