IfATE

Five things we learned from IfATE’s 2023 annual report

The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has published its annual accounts for 2022/23. This is the fifth annual…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Colleges to receive nearly £500m to fund staff pay rises

Extra funding means pay negotiations can recommence

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Exams

Missed deadline risks thousands of BTEC results

Scores of schools and colleges missed the July 5 BTEC data deadline

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Adult education, Skills reform

Government scraps plans to limit ‘employment only’ adult education outcomes

DfE will rename non-qual courses and reinstate health and community outcomes

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
WorldSkills

Over 400 students and apprentices chosen for 2023 WorldSkills UK national finals

Over 400 have been chosen to compete to find UK’s best in range of technical skills subjects

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Apprenticeships, Ofsted

‘Almost all’ B&M apprentices left training, Ofsted finds

Inspectors rates large retailer B&M apprenticeship programme as ‘inadequate’

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel


Adult education, Apprenticeships, Training Providers

Babington to cut over 100 staff in ‘strategic realignment’

New CEO scraps AEB, bootcamps and some apprenticeships

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
WorldSkills

Ben Blackledge named WorldSkills UK CEO

Blackledge promoted to CEO position after two months as interim

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Ofsted

ESFA allows ‘inadequate’ apprenticeship provider to keep contract

Inspectors now say the provider has made ‘reasonable progress’ across the board

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Apprenticeships, Ofsted

Engineering training provider scoops another ‘outstanding’

Inspectors praise TTE Training’s ‘highly ambitious curriculum’ and ‘relentless’ focus on safeguarding

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Colleges, T Levels

Colleges share £100m for ‘fit for purpose’ T Level-ready buildings

107 projects win cash for wave five of the rollout

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education, Devolution

West Mids to fund ‘study programmes’ for young adults

Young adults to benefit from a raft of measures set to boost the number of level 3 qualifications in…

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein

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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
Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps

Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps

Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Frances Read
Apprenticeships

Entrepreneur chased for millions after apprenticeship collapse

ESFA uncovers ‘fake’ taxi apprentices as liquidator reveals intercompany payments days after firm decided to shut

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets

Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen