News Unionlearn rejects Labour apprenticeship policy as AELP looks five years ahead Labour proposals to abolish level two apprenticeships were rejected by Unionlearn at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Report calls for apprenticeships to be ‘re-made’ to meet new outcomes Apprenticeships should be “re-made” to give learners expertise, resourcefulness, craftsmanship, business-like attitudes and wider skills for growth, according to… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Colleges ‘not meeting employer needs’ on digital skills, Lords warn Further education colleges are failing to meet employer needs when it comes to digital skills, an influential group of… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Niace sets out demands for FE in budget submission The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) has demanded that the next budget tackle the “crisis” facing adult skills… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Ed Miliband to pledge ‘apprenticeship guarantee’ to deliver 80,000 extra annual starts by 2020 An “apprenticeship guarantee” will create 80,000 more starts a year by 2020 if Labour forms a government in May,… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News College is prepared to take on learners after academy trust drops plans for school sixth form The principal of an FE college is planning to take-on students left stranded after an academy trust dropped plans… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Singing FE lecturer shortlisted for $1m best teacher in world prize A singing science lecturer from Middlesbrough College is in the running for a $1m first-prize after making the top… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Miliband announces that Labour would protect 16 to 19 funding A Labour government would protect 16 to 19 education as part of plans to protect the entire Department for… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Miliband to stand by Labour’s controversial plans to scrap apprenticeships below level three Labour leader Ed Miliband is set to stand by his party’s controversial pledge to scrap apprenticeships of less than two… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Niace proposes £100m ‘advancement service’ for low-paid workers – with poll The government should top-slice from skills and careers budgets to pay for coaches to help people out of low-paid… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News MPs write to Nicky Morgan over sixth form colleges VAT exemption More than 70 MPs have written to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan calling for sixth form colleges to be exempted… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Less than a quarter of quals win appeal against SFA cull Less than one-in-four qualifications listed as in danger of the public funding axe last year have survived the latest… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Newer 1 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 681 682 683 684 832 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 13h Anviksha Patel 13h 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
