Author: Billy Camden

Unions have urged the government to phase the return of students to schools and colleges, amid concerns ministers will opt for a “big bang” approach to reopenings. Organisations representing leaders, teachers, support staff, governors and colleges have warned they are “increasingly concerned” the government will opt to bring all learners back on March 8, which […]

A tool that allows apprentices to give feedback on their training provider via text has been delayed again and will not be launched for at least another year, if ever. The Education and Skills Funding Agency’s Digital Service has been developing the feature for a number of years and its launch was originally set for […]

The exam board Pearson has launched a “major” consultation into the future of exams, following calls for GCSEs to be scrapped. Former education secretaries Damian Hinds, Baroness Morris and Lord Blunkett will sit on an expert panel to advise and steer a research project looking at assessment and qualifications for young people aged between 14 […]

An Association of Apprentices has been launched in an effort to help boost the number of the work-based trainees staying on and completing their course. The new support network for apprentices was founded by the government’s apprenticeship ambassador Jason Holt, former Lord Mayor of the City of London Sir Peter Estlin and a co-founder of […]

Training providers were left “appalled” this week after the Education and Skills Funding Agency made the “ridiculous” decision that all who are on RoATP will need to re-apply yet again. “They just don’t get what we are going through, do they?” was how one managing director of an independent provider reacted, while a college principal […]

The head of the Association of Colleges is “worried” there will be a slow start to the new flagship level 3 adult offer despite pleas from the education secretary for his members to embrace it. David Hughes has warned that colleges “still don’t have enough detail” to fully plan their offer, even though it is […]

New provider monitoring visits have been delayed indefinitely by Ofsted. The inspectorate previously said it would restart the visits from January face-to-face but later announced they would be conducted remotely until at least the February half-term in light of the third national lockdown. The virtual monitoring visits to providers that are new to delivering apprenticeships […]