Author: FE Week Reporter

The Prime Minister wished everyone from WorldSkills Team UK the best of luck in letters handed to them at a special send-off event in Westminster. [You can leave your message of support for Team UK at the end of this article.] In a letter to each of the competitors who are flying out to Brazil tonight, […]

The WorldSkills competition won’t be the only event taking place at Sao Paulo’s 400,000 square metre Anhembi Park this week. As competitors go head to head for a place on the medals podium, skills sector leaders from around the world will be putting their heads together to work out how to improve skills training internationally. […]

The UK’s WorldSkills competitors are set to head off for Brazil tonight — and a number of them will be boarding the BA flight from Heathrow with the encouragement of their local MPs still ringing in their ears. With the much-anticipated start on Tuesday (August 11) growing ever nearer, seven of the UK competitors were given the House of […]

Independent learning provider t2 Business Solutions has been hit with a grade three Ofsted rating after concern was raised about failures to safeguard learners and vulnerable adults. The report published today on the Cardiff-based provider rated its health and social care apprenticeships provision as ‘good’, and employability training including traineeships as ‘outstanding’. But t2, which […]

Exam board OCR will not face action over events which almost led to it failing to issue A level results last summer, Ofqual has confirmed. The qualifications watchdog has released its investigation into a series of issues at OCR last year which put at risk the delivery of the 2014 GCSE and A level results. A […]

Frustration is growing among Trailblazer apprenticeship designers with many of the new standards still awaiting government approval for delivery almost a year after they were published. Twenty two standards published by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) in November are still waiting to be approved despite months of consultation and design having already gone […]

The Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB) has welcomed Ofqual’s decision to simplify its original plans for how the size of qualifications will be described after the current Qualifications Credit Framework (QCF) has been scrapped. The qualifications watchdog launched a three-month 19-question consultation on March 25 requesting views from across the sector on its plans to […]

Ofqual chief executive Glenys Stacey has announced that she will be standing down at the end of February. Ms Stacey (pictured), who is also Ofqual’s chief regulator, said today that she thought “the time is right now for a change in leadership”. She has led the qualifications watchdog, which was set up in April 2010, […]