Author: Billy Camden

The government has U-turned on its decision to exclude 16 to 19 providers from its £1 billion Covid catch-up fund. A one-off, ring-fenced grant of up to £96 million will be stumped up to provide “small group tutoring” for disadvantaged 16 to 19 students whose studies have been disrupted by the pandemic. Prime minister Boris […]

The country’s biggest skills and careers event, WorldSkills UK LIVE, has been cancelled for 2020 due to the health and safety concerns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. This year’s WorldSkills competition cycle will also not run. But both events will return in 2021 as the UK begins to prepare its next group of talented young […]

The chief executive of the Careers and Enterprise Company is to step down to run a firm that supports mid-career switchers to train as software engineers. Claudia Harris, a former adviser to Tony Blair who was appointed as the CEC’s first leader five years ago, will leave this month to become CEO of Makers, a […]

Using brokers in subcontracting deals will be a “serious breach” of funding rules next year, the government said today as it announced the first steps to clamping down on subcontracting in FE. Training providers have also been told to publish a “rationale” for subcontracting, their management fee structure and a list of subcontracting partners on […]

A chief executive has resigned after his college hit serious financial problems that led to a plea for emergency funding and triggered formal FE Commissioner intervention. Nick Juba (pictured) quit Greater Brighton Metropolitan College (GB Met) “some weeks ago” after five years at the helm. In an unusual move, Andy Green, who is currently the […]

The Department for Education has published details of how it will fund the £101 million school and college leavers scheme, as well as a list of 355 eligible courses. The programme, announced by chancellor Rishi Sunak during his summer statement last week, will give 18 and 19 year olds who are struggling to find work […]

Ofsted has confirmed it will proceed with a shake-up of the redress system for inspections, but will give providers five working days to complain, rather than two. The watchdog has published the outcome to its consultation on changes to complaints, which was launched in March. The consultation proposed that formal complaints raised by education providers […]

The national retraining scheme has taken another step forward after the government began searching for “partnerships” to design and test 12 week courses for adults that lead to “guaranteed” job interviews. A Department for Education tender has gone out for groups of employers, providers and local authorities to deliver “a new training model” initially in […]