News

Government reveals flexibilities for T-level industry placement

Flexibilities will be added to the controversial 315-hour minimum industry placement in T-levels – including allowing multiple placements at...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

‘We are restless for solutions’: Grenfell community meets the PM about ‘threat’ to local college

Campaigners battling to save a college campus that serves the community affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster have pleaded...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

College to axe A-level department at a time of quality and financial concerns

A college that crashed two grades from ‘outstanding’ last year is consulting on plans to close down its A-level...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

ESFA to finally invite small employers and providers to trial apprenticeship system

The Education and Skills Funding Agency is preparing to invite non-levy employers and providers to test its digital apprenticeship...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Six months after RoATP applications ESFA can’t say when outcomes will be revealed

New applicants trying to get onto the refreshed apprenticeship provider register have been left hanging by the government six...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Apprenticeship quango to review impact of their own controversial funding rate cuts

The Institute for Apprenticeships will soon start evaluating the impact of its controversial funding band reviews, and promises to...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

How colleges can encourage more students to be active

A large scale survey published today reveals that most FE students are not meeting the Chief Medical Officer’s guidelines...

Billy Camden
Marcus Kingwell
News

AoC wins secretive T-levels transition offer tender

The Association of Colleges has won a contract with the government to develop a “transitional” course for T-levels, following...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

What Ofsted’s new inspection framework means for FE

Ofsted has today published its new and final education inspection framework that will come into effect from September. It...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden