AI, Apprenticeships

Higher-level apprenticeships ‘most exposed’ training route to AI advancement

Education jobs also among the most affected occupation by artificial intelligence

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Industrial action

Minimum service level proposals: Everything colleges need to know

It will be left up to principals to decide ‘appropriate’ staffing levels and down to colleges to issue new…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
News

DfE wants 3 in 4 students in during strikes, leaked documents reveal

Ministers accused of acting in ‘bad faith’ and deliberately ‘collapsing’ minimum service level talks with unions

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Colleges

College learners forced to study remotely after bus driver strike

Go North East bus strike forces colleges to pay thousands for private transport for learners

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

Revealed: The 2023 Pearson Teaching Awards winners

Sixteen winners from across UK schools and colleges recognised

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Apprenticeships, Politics

Halfon opposes levy changes – despite chancellor’s openness for reforms

Conservative MPs pile in on calls to reform the apprenticeship levy

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen


Ofsted

‘More transparent’ Ofsted complaints process gets go ahead

Internal reviews scrapped and new post-inspection calls allowed in changes to speed up process and increase transparency

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Apprenticeships

Apprentice minimum wage band could be axed

Low Pay Commission will examine evidence before scrapping the apprentice minimum wage

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Politics

Fears of even more FE budget cuts after autumn statement

Spending on non-protected government budgets, like further education, at risk due to spending on tax cuts, according to analysts

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, Politics, Skills reform

OBR forecast hikes apprenticeship levy intake to £4bn next year

Gap between levy receipts and public spending distribution becomes ‘gaping chasm’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Ofqual, Ofsted

Ofqual investigation ‘made me feel like a criminal’

Apprenticeship assessment firm exits market after regulator’s audit left owner feeling suicidal

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

‘Professional status’ scheme for apprenticeships launched 

Apprentices will be awarded post nominal designations through the scheme

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen

Must read

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
Jessica Hill
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