Advent Calendar The Schools Week & FE Week Festive Advent Calendar Twelve days of festive fun with multiple competitions, prizes and fundraising FE Week Reporter 2y FE Week Reporter 2y Colleges ‘Underutilised’ college campus to reopen as specialist high needs centre Principal ‘delighted’ to find ‘sustainable solution’ for the site after controversial closure Billy Camden 2y Billy Camden 2y Colleges RAAC: 3 more colleges with crumbly concrete confirmed DfE’s updated list shows 231 education settings have now identified the crumbly concrete Shane Chowen 2y Shane Chowen 2y News First T Levels relicensing tender launched Awarding organisations sought to ‘refresh and develop’ those rolled out in waves 1 and 2 Billy Camden 2y Billy Camden 2y Ofsted Ofsted: First ‘outstanding’ for Burton and South Derbyshire College Inspectors praise ‘high performing culture’ and ‘exceptionally strong’ employer relationships Anviksha Patel 2y Anviksha Patel 2y Lifelong Learning Older workers nervous about lifelong learning financing New polling reveals varying attitudes among adults towards taking out loans for courses FE Week Reporter 2y FE Week Reporter 2y Industrial action Strikes: Minimum service levels will ‘inflame’ tensions Unions slam ‘bad faith’ proposals as college leaders raise concerns about union relationships Shane Chowen 2y Shane Chowen 2y Colleges Students force college to ‘suspend’ ties with Israel-linked aerospace firm Luton Sixth Form Colleges has cut ties with Leonardo, which provides STEM careers events and work placements Anviksha Patel 2y Anviksha Patel 2y Skills reform, T Levels DfE’s spending on T Level public awareness efforts revealed Leaders say DfE ‘significantly underestimated’ the difficulty of launching the new qualification Anviksha Patel 2y Anviksha Patel 2y Ofsted Exclusive Ofsted surrenders in secret legal battle over ‘fatally flawed’ inspection Sector body overturns ‘inadequate’ judgment and accuses watchdog of ‘sub-standard’ assessment Billy Camden 2y Billy Camden 2y Apprenticeships, Skills reform Halfon ‘encouraged’ by apprenticeship trends since the levy Young people squeezed out and higher levels continue to grow while level 2 falls to lowest on record Billy Camden 2y Billy Camden 2y Colleges, Ofsted ‘Milestone’ Ofsted result for arts college Hereford College of Arts judged ‘outstanding’ for first time Anviksha Patel 2y Anviksha Patel 2y Newer 1 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 811 Older Must read 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 3w Jessica Hill 3w 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 1mo Billy Camden 1mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 3mo Josh Mellor 3mo
