News Exclusive ‘Shocked’ colleges launch collective complaint over English resit grade boundary hike Exam board defends surprise decision as one CEO issues a judicial review threat Billy Camden 1y Billy Camden 1y 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 Newer 1 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 832 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 9h Anviksha Patel 9h 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 1w Shane Chowen 1w 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 2w Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 2w 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
