WorldSkills 2024 Team UK for WorldSkills Lyon 2024 revealed Over 30 young skills champions will head to France to represent the UK this September Anviksha Patel 1y Anviksha Patel 1y Students NUS reaches settlement with sacked president Terms of the deal with Shaima Dallali will however be kept confidential Billy Camden 1y Billy Camden 1y Apprenticeships Shared apprenticeship scheme barely meets half its recruitment target Flexible construction apprenticeship starts tumble amid sector-wide recruitment issues Anviksha Patel 2y Anviksha Patel 2y Colleges, Ofsted Waltham Forest named London’s only ‘outstanding’ general FE college Inspectors heaped praise on the college for helping students to “flourish” Josh Mellor 2y Josh Mellor 2y Colleges Wolverhampton college freed from intervention after 12 years The college’s financial health improved to ‘good’ after DfE agreed to take on part of a £10m debt Josh Mellor 2y Josh Mellor 2y Skills bootcamps Provider sues DfE after skills bootcamp contract termination The DfE accuses the provider of changing awarding body without prior agreement Josh Mellor 2y Josh Mellor 2y Adult education, Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DfE scales back ‘free courses for jobs’ offer Access will be restricted to adults earning below £25k in 2024/25 Billy Camden 2y Billy Camden 2y Colleges AoC hikes large college member fees to £57.7k Most affected colleges supportive of 20% increase as some mull over value for money Billy Camden 2y Billy Camden 2y Colleges UCU: Most FE staff back alternative to ‘traumatic’ Ofsted inspections Lecturers call for ‘peer-led’ model, as new chief inspector also floats the idea Anviksha Patel 2y Anviksha Patel 2y Colleges, Staff Lecturer wins payout over ‘distressing’ remarks after husband’s death City College Plymouth appealing judgement over absent legal representative Anviksha Patel 2y Anviksha Patel 2y recruitment Skills minister backs FE lecturer ‘reservist’ trial FE retraining ‘reservist’ pilot for motor industry gets minister seal of approval Anviksha Patel 2y Anviksha Patel 2y Politics, Skills reform ‘Change on an unprecedented scale’: Ofqual responds to ABS plans Qualifications reform risks more exams, ‘unregulated’ A-levels and students unprepared for higher study, says exams regulator Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Newer 1 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 832 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 15h Anviksha Patel 15h 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
