News

Treasury confirms colleges CAN furlough staff

Treasury officials have given colleges the green light to tap into their coronavirus job retention scheme. Speaking to FE...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Chief regulator offers ‘reassurance’ over this summer’s GCSE and A-level grades

Ofqual’s chief regulator Sally Collier has “reassured” GCSE and A-level students that the grades they get this summer will...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Students to sit English and maths exams at home during Covid-19 lockdown

Thousands of students will be able to sit their functional skills exams from home from next week, the first...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

Treasury will subsidise college wages – but under what circumstances?

The good news is a spokesperson from the Treasury told FE Week that staff working in areas of a...

Billy Camden
NICK LINFORD
News

Remote assessment guidance too vague and open to malpractice, say awarding bodies

Online assessment will only work for around 40 per cent of apprenticeships and the government’s “vague” guidance in the...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

University in drive to push MBA apprentice places as government reviews funding

A university is scrambling to recruit MBA apprentices amid the government’s review of the programme’s funding. On Monday the...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Funding agency ‘pause’ planned audits during Covid-19 lockdown

All planned routine funding audits of FE providers have been put on hold, the government confirmed today. The Education...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

Building the future – helping the West Midlands through the coronavirus outbreak

The mayor of the West Midlands Combined Authority explains why they have been quick to act on cabinet office...

Billy Camden
ANDY STREET
News

Applications to apprenticeship provider register to be suspended

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has today announced they will stop accepting applications to the controversial register of...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden