News

Lord Agnew to help with FE and skills brief at DfE

Yet another minister in the Department for Education has been given some responsibility for further education. It was announced...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Welsh college rapped by Ofsted

A Welsh college is to be suspended from recruiting apprentices in England after Ofsted found it making ‘insufficient progress’...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

The ‘Forgotten Third’ deserve the dignity of a new type of qualification

In spite of decades of curriculum and qualifications reform, a third of 16-year-olds in England are not awarded a...

Billy Camden
Roy Blatchford
News

Banks given £201m to clear college debts during area reviews

Colleges had over £200 million of bank debt paid off by the Treasury during the post-16 area reviews, but...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

College to stay open as usual during ‘mammoth’ 15-day strike

Nottingham College has said it will be open as usual during 15-days of strike action by the University and...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

New education secretary commits to Stourbridge College sell-off meeting

The education secretary has committed to meeting with principals around Stourbridge to discuss how further education can continue in...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

Wake up call to reverse cuts in lifelong learning

For more than twenty years Learning and Work Institute has been surveying adults to ask if they are taking...

Billy Camden
Stephen Evans
News

ESFA to demand actual off-the-job training hour data for every apprentice

Yet another data field for logging apprentices’ off-the-job training hours will be introduced to individual learner records (ILR) from...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Large employers lose access to £96 million of apprenticeship funding in just two months

Employers lost access to £44 million of their apprenticeship levy funds in July, and £52 million in August, the...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden