Author: Billy Camden

The chief executive of the Federation of Awarding Bodies has become the Brexit Party candidate for the Hastings and Rye MP seat. Tom Bewick, a former Labour councillor, will contest work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd for the constituency at the next general election. He told FE Week his professional duties as leader of FAB […]

A council and a specialist college have received the worst possible rating from Ofsted, in a week where three early monitoring reports at new providers recorded ‘insufficient progress’ scores. North Lincolnshire Council and Cambian Lufton College in Somerset saw their ratings drop by two grades from ‘good’. The inspectorate found a set of poor teaching […]

Officials are finally preparing a cross-departmental “proposal” for cutting travel costs for apprentices. It is being worked on by the Department for Education and Department for Transport, more than two years after the Conservatives pledged to discount public transport for apprentices in their election manifesto. The government has stalled on implementing the commitment to date, […]

England’s largest college group has appointed Liz Bromley as its new chief executive. NCG will welcome the former deputy vice chancellor at the University of Central Lancashire to the top post on 19 August. She will take over from the college group’s deputy chief executive Chris Payne, who has been serving as acting chief executive […]

A Labour Party commission has set out what it calls a “radical new direction” for lifelong learning, including the potential role for tax credits in leveraging employer engagement in training. The political party’s independent Lifelong Learning Commission, which is co-chaired by former education secretary Estelle Morris and general secretary of the Communication Workers Union Dave […]

The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has today launched a route review of standards in the creative and design industries. It will look at 15 different apprenticeships across the sector, including bespoke tailor and cutter, watchmaker, bespoke saddle maker and broadcast production assistant (see full list below). The review follows an announcement by the […]

A specialist college that teaches students with autism and other complex needs has dropped two grades to ‘inadequate’ after Ofsted found “significant” safeguarding concerns. Cambian Lufton College, based in south Somerset, received the lowest possible rating from the education watchdog today after previously receiving a grade two in July 2016. Inspectors found that senior leaders’ […]

Apprenticeship starts for the period August 2018 to May 2019 are up 7 per cent on the previous year, but 26 per cent down for the same period in 2016/17 – the year before the levy reforms were introduced. Monthly provisional figures for both April and May 2019 were published by the Department for Education […]