Portable flexi-jobs apprenticeship pilot flops Providers hit less than 1% of their target with just 2 months to go
Ofqual extends term-time checkpoints to hundreds of thousands more VTQ students Extra workload anticipated for schools and colleges to ensure grades are handed out on time
Top Ofsted marks for Bristol apprenticeship provider in first full inspection Professional Apprenticeships judged ‘outstanding’, with inspectors citing high pass rates
Strike ballot fails to meet turnout threshold in half of colleges UCU members at 32 colleges are, however, set to strike
£30m allocated in first year of Sunak’s flagship maths scheme goes unspent Whitehall too ‘short-termist’ after councils return most of Multiply funding
DfE takes control of FE teacher training scheme mid-round Taking Teaching Further programme brought in-house after one year into two-year scheme
Prison education: Treasury drags heels on pension guarantee Private providers could pay ‘considerably less’ in pension contributions under new contract, unions warn
Four things we learned from the Employer Skills Survey 2022 Government mass survey of employers finds training investment continuing to ‘flatline’
Young carers ‘put off’ T Levels Benefit rules mean carers are choosing shorter courses or dropping out of education