News Mayors’ use of AEB powers ‘disappointing’, says ex No 10 adviser Ex skills advisers Alison Wolf and Michael Barber will share their insider perspectives on how further education and skills… FE Week Reporter 1y FE Week Reporter 1y Apprenticeships Halfon threatens low achieving apprenticeship providers Minister warns of growth limitations and market exits for providers showing ‘insufficient improvement’ Billy Camden 1y Billy Camden 1y Apprenticeships National apprenticeship achievement rate rises to 54% Slight increase leaves sector way off government target Billy Camden 1y Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 1y Apprenticeships, Higher education OfS awards further £14m for degree apprenticeships expansion Weston College wins £1.1 million in latest round of OfS degree apprenticeships funding Shane Chowen 1y Shane Chowen 1y ABS, Colleges, Skills reform ‘Clunky’ Advanced British Standard risks ‘blunt choice’ for students, leaders warn Ministers accused of ‘putting the cart before the horse’ with 16-19 reform plans Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Ofsted Ofsted: ‘Constrained’ funding could ‘compromise’ inspection reliability Watchdog’s chair warns actions to absorb rising costs are a ‘short-term fix’ and will likely ‘store up cost pressures’ FE Week Reporter 1y FE Week Reporter 1y Colleges, Ofsted Second consecutive ‘outstanding’ for Catholic sixth form college St John Rigby RC Sixth Form College retains top marks 7 years after previous inspection Anviksha Patel 1y Anviksha Patel 1y Apprenticeships Sunak to scrap SME co-investment for young apprentices PM will also increase apprenticeship levy transfers up to 50% Billy Camden 1y Billy Camden 1y Apprenticeships Who cares? Funding boost won’t spark renaissance in care apprenticeships Nearly 200 training providers have stopped delivering care apprenticeships since 2019 Shane Chowen 1y Shane Chowen 1y T Levels Exclusive DfE could step in if T Level fee hikes hit college budgets Awarding bodies can charge colleges higher fees if gen 2 T Levels under-recruit Shane Chowen 1y Shane Chowen 1y Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DfE puts 40 staff on Advanced British Standard ‘vanity project’ ‘To say this is the wrong priority is an understatement, and smacks of rearranging the deckchairs while the Titanic… Freddie Whittaker 1y Freddie Whittaker 1y Colleges Procurement paused on college antisemitism training Procurement of £7 million to tackle antisemitism in education now has “arbitrary” closing date of 2030 Anviksha Patel 1y Anviksha Patel 1y Newer 1 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 820 Older Must read 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 4w Jessica Hill 4w 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 3mo Billy Camden 3mo Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo
