News

ESFA scraps provider achievement rate reports

Colleges and training providers will not have access to qualification achievement rate (QAR) reports to use internally for 2019/20,...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Monthly apprenticeships update: May starts fall 60%

Apprenticeship starts for the month of May 2020 fell 60 per cent on the previous year, figures published this...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

300 redundancies planned at England’s largest apprenticeship provider

England’s largest apprenticeship provider is planning to slash around 300 jobs as it battles with “significantly reduced” learner numbers...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

How EdTech can transform further education post-lockdown

The silver lining of the Covid-19 pandemic could well be a revolution in how further education utilizes the power...

Billy Camden
Dana Dabbous
Adult education

ESFA ‘withdraws’ AEB funding clawback plans following sector backlash

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has “withdrawn” plans to clawback this year’s unspent adult education budget grant funding...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

ESFA plan traineeship funding tender despite history of tendering woes

The Education and Skills Funding Agency is to launch a tender to “quickly” widen the provider base for adult...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofqual wants admissions ‘flexibility’ for students with ‘one or two lower grades’

Post-16 providers have been urged to “offer greater flexibility” in admission decisions to ensure students who get “one or...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

ESFA reveals spending and audit rules for £96m 16-19 Covid tutoring fund

Colleges and other 16 to 19 providers will be paid at least an additional £150 per disadvantaged learner next...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Concern over T-level industry placements rises as employers pull out

Employers are cancelling T-level industry placements and providers are finding it increasingly challenging to find alternatives, new research has...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden