News EXCLUSIVE: Ofsted FE and skills inspections face merger with schools and early years Ofsted’s FE and skills inspection regime could be scrapped as the watchdog looks at a huge merger shake-up including… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Trade union and business leaders issue joint agreement over traineeship pay and work experience as programme marks one-year anniversary Trade union and business leaders have today issued a joint agreement on traineeships over pay and work experience quality… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Government Q&A on apprenticeship funding reform fails to ease concerns Concerns about proposed new apprenticeship funding models remain despite an update on reform plans from the Department for Business,… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Free schools allowed to join ranks of the Sixth Form Colleges’ Association Free schools could be allowed to join the Sixth Form Colleges’ Association (SFCA) after its governing council voted in… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Pressure mounts for answers over Warwickshire College principal Mariane Cavalli’s departure A Midland college is under growing pressure to go public over the departure of its former principal after she unexpectedly… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News What can FE and skills expect of Nick Boles? With just over a fortnight gone since Grantham and Stamford MP Nick Boles became the new Skills Minister, the sector… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Mariane Cavalli to leave Warwickshire College next month after unexplained temporary absence Warwickshire College principal Mariane Cavalli will leave her post at the end of August, the college has announced. Her… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News New sector leadership thinktank appoints chief executive A new sector leadership thinktank has appointed former National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) policy director Mark Ravenhall… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Tech bacc could help one in four, says Skills Minister Boles New Skills Minister Nick Boles said he hoped one in four young people would study for the government’s flagship… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Union questions move to keep ‘supportive’ Gazelle report out of public domain A decision to keep an allegedly positive report about the under-fire Gazelle Colleges Group under-wraps has been questioned by… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Skills body vows to bring down rejection rate for apprentice certificates A crackdown on rejected claims for apprenticeship certificates has been launched in a bid reduce the number of rejections… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Vocational education inquiry aims to explain reduction in apprenticeship starts, committee chair announces An education committee inquiry into vocational qualifications will look at the reduction of apprenticeships starts among 16 to 19-year-olds,… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Newer 1 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 829 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 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 5mo Billy Camden 5mo
