News

Adult education charity rescued by council

A long-running adult education charity has been saved from going under after a local council agreed to a £100,000...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

ESFA seeks legal advice in face of unpublished Ofsted reports

The Education and Skills Funding Agency is taking legal advice on whether it can intervene at new providers before...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

DfE relaxes traineeship rules

The Department for Education has relaxed its requirement for students on traineeship programmes to record 100 hours of work...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Low Pay Commission calls on government to better protect apprentices

The government has been urged to take action against recurrent “very high levels” of illegally low apprentice wages. The...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

ESFA delays full rollout of digital apprenticeship system to April 2021

The full transition onto the digital apprenticeship system has been delayed by four months, the Education and Skills Funding...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Back to the drawing board for apprenticeship funding rate reform

The government’s apprenticeships quango has announced it will launch a second funding rate consultation – days before the deadline...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
AEB

AEB funding rules published in draft – but without threatened subcontracting limits

Draft rules for funding the adult education budget in 2020/21 have not included any changes to subcontracting despite the...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

Colleges aren’t expecting a bailout – they want to help with a ‘September promise’

Colleges in England look set to lose around £150 million of their income, 2 per cent of turnover, in...

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David Hughes
News

Ofsted releases reports for inspections pre-Covid – but only the positive ones

Ofsted has begun publishing FE and skills inspection reports again. Four new reports, based on pre-coronavirus visits, appeared on...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden