Apprenticeships

Starts stopped on 18 apprenticeships with no assessment organisation

But 60 other standards in the same boat can continue to start apprentices

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Sponsored post

Delivering Diverse Tech Talent at Scale While Delivering the Quality and Outcomes Employers Need

As part of our journey for this white paper, we talked to decision makers in SMEs and global organisations,…

Code Institute
Code Institute
Sponsored post

How to engineer a qualification

Why partnership is key to crafting the qualifications of the future.

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Pearson
Apprenticeships

Apprenticeship assessment arm of GP Strategies to close

‘Mixed emotions’ decision comes after the company shut its apprenticeship training delivery provider earlier this year

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Politics

Tory donors leave Education Policy Institute board as election looms

Sir Paul Marshall and Lord Nash will step down as trustees of the think tank, as David Laws moves…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofqual

Sir Ian Bauckham appointed interim Ofqual chief

Current chair of the regulator to serve for 12 month period from January after Dr Jo Saxton departs for…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


Ofsted

Ofsted publishes first FE curriculum review

Review warns maths knowledge is crucial to ‘rapid progress’ in the business sector

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
News

Inaugural Good for Me Good for FE award winners revealed

17 winners and highly commended finalists unveiled at online awards ceremony

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Ofsted

Provider that ‘rarely’ contacts apprentices judged ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted

Leadership changes have led to a ‘rapid decline’ in quality

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Apprenticeships

Functional skills funding uplift brought forward to January 2024

54% increase fast tracked because it is ‘so important’, top apprenticeships civil servant says

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
AELP, Apprenticeships

AELP names Ben Rowland as new CEO

ITP founder and apprenticeships author will join the membership body in December

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, CIPD

Apprenticeships should last for minimum of two years, CIPD says

HR body warns most UK apprenticeships are ‘too short to be a meaningful introduction to a career for young…

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein

Must read

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
Adult education, ITPs

Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers

Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor