News

‘Inadequate’ provider hands £2m adult education budget contract back

A training provider has handed back an adult education budget (AEB) contract of almost £2 million after Ofsted criticised...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

CBI: Don’t restrict how the apprenticeship levy is spent

The Confederation of British Industry has urged the government not to restrict how the apprenticeship levy is spent in...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofsted blasts ‘unreliable’ apprenticeship off-the-job training records

A new provider that has more than 300 apprentices on its books has been criticised by Ofsted for “unreliable”...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Training provider in college group given union recognition

Two unions have reached a deal to bargain over pay and working conditions on behalf of the almost 300...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Adult care employers welcome switch to rail academy for apprenticeship oversight

A rail specialist firm has been chosen as the new external quality assurance provider for care apprenticeships, in a...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

50,000 more nurses? 3m apprenticeship target a lesson in how key Conservative manifesto ‘guarantees’ do not add up

The Conservative Party manifesto, published yesterday, pledged “50,000 more nurses” as the first of six “guarantees”, signed on page...

Billy Camden
Nick Linford
News

It played to our strengths: grade-one principal explains Ofsted success

The principal of the first college to be rated “outstanding” under Ofsted’s new framework has warned that “you can’t...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

‘Heart-wrenching’ impact of funding cuts shared by college leaders

Six college leaders have shared the “heart-wrenching” impacts of government funding cuts after speaking anonymously to FE Week for...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Labour promises to raise the FE funding rate and reform the apprenticeship levy

Labour has pledged to raise the base rate of per-student funding in FE to secondary-school levels and expand the...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden