News

No tolerance: The true cost of resit reforms

Provider fines to hit £45m a year without 5% tolerance threshold

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Destinations unknown: ILR data cut angers MCAs

Destination and progression submission requirement to end in 2024/25

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Higher education, Training Providers

Office for Students to investigate uni’s subcontractors

Leeds Trinity University faces regulatory probe over subcontracting

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Ofsted, SEND

Four things to know from Ofsted’s careers review in specialist colleges

Watchdog criticises local authority non-compliance with SEND learner transitions to FE and training

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

‘Politically driven’ post-16 policy churn has damaged stability, think tank warns

Leaders urged to address ‘short attention spans’ to create more stable political consensus and improve post-16 inequalities and data…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Hull College exits intervention after 7 years

Principal Debra Gray said the college has been ‘transformed back into a highly respected’ institution

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen


Apprenticeships

Apprenticeship starts dip 12% after functional skills rate announcement

Starts dive month after officials announced funding fast-track

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, Funding

16-19 funding to rise by 1.9% from August 2024

Uplifts won’t help teacher recruitment and retention crisis, AoC said

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges, English and maths, Skills reform

DfE to introduce English and maths resit minimum hours and scrap 5% tolerance

‘Wholly unhelpful’ changes to condition of funding rules amid concerns over rising non-compliance

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Wolf offers 3 apprenticeship policy ‘slam dunks’ for next government

Former PM skills adviser warns apprenticeships ‘heading in the wrong direction’ and Labour’s plans will ‘make things worse’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Sponsored post

Curriculum planning to meet skills needs

In recent months, the UK Government made a big push towards matching colleges’ provision with that of the Local…

Code Institute
Code Institute

Must read

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
Colleges, FE Commissioner

Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal

Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal

Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
T Levels

NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure

Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education, ITPs

Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers

Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor