Colleges, Skills reform Hundreds of leaders make last-ditch plea for BTECs bonfire pause 455 school and college heads sign letter calling for minimum 1 year delay to defunding plans Billy Camden 1y Billy Camden 1y News £3m government AI ‘content store’ to help teachers plan lessons But scheme will not see schools and colleges receive direct funding to help them adopt new technology Billy Camden 1y Lucas Cumiskey 1y Colleges, Students College ‘auto-enrols’ students on voting register The scheme hopes to improve low turnouts of young voters Josh Mellor 1y Josh Mellor 1y Adult education, Devolution Combined authority abandons botched AEB procurement Providers left in the dark over West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s decision to ditch adult education tender Anviksha Patel 1y Anviksha Patel 1y Ofsted Ofsted blasts SEND college for ‘unnecessarily’ putting learners at risk of harm Safeguarding failings land ‘inadequate’ judgment that leads to several leadership changes Anviksha Patel 1y Anviksha Patel 1y Results 2024 Bauckham: Assessment review should ‘look at’ GCSE resits policy Ofqual chief says policy requiring pupils without a grade 4 to re-take English and maths should form part of… Billy Camden 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Colleges, Results 2024 GCSE resits 2024: Maths pass rate up but English falls again Resit cohorts rose substantially this year Billy Camden 1y Billy Camden 1y News Leaders slam ‘unacceptable’ above-inflation 2025 exam fee rises Heads say increases are unaffordable for schools and colleges and ‘hard to stomach’ Billy Camden 1y Lucas Cumiskey 1y Skills reform DfE advertises for Skills England permanent chair and board Up to £25k on offer to successful candidate for 20 days’ work a year Josh Mellor 1y Josh Mellor 1y News Suspended students twice as likely to be NEET by age 24, research finds Think tank’s report puts ‘a number on the suspension employment grades gap for the first time’ Billy Camden 1y Billy Camden 1y Apprenticeships, Ofsted NHS to abandon ‘outstanding’ apprenticeship scheme in North East and Yorkshire Regional office to ditch successful direct delivery in favour of alternative providers Anviksha Patel 1y Anviksha Patel 1y Results 2024 Results 2024: 7 key trends from VTQ and T Level results North West tops the table on T Level awards while engineering students most likely to struggle with industry placements Anviksha Patel 1y Anviksha Patel 1y Newer 1 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 829 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 1w Shane Chowen 1w 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 4w Anviksha Patel 4w 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 5mo Billy Camden 5mo
