Apprenticeships

Providers must join official register to offer new ‘apprenticeship units’

DWP skills director also confirms new short course content will come from existing apprenticeship standards

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

1-week apprenticeship ‘units’, and 5 other things we learned from Smith’s white paper briefing

Skills minister also defends adult education plans and explains the need to introduce laws that ban ‘unsuitable' FE leaders

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Josh Mellor
Colleges

DfE names FE teacher training taskforce members

Wigan and Leigh College principal Anna Dawe will chair the group

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Unqualified apprentices could pass under assessment reforms, employers warn

Skills England pauses pilot of changes after construction leaders claim 'sampling' plans will lead to a 'race to the...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
T Levels

Clawback reveals T Level underspend bigger than feared 

Overallocation errors and unmet student recruitment targets stung colleges to the tune of £86m

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

Governors Havant a clue about college’s finances going South

FE Commissioner reveals financial crisis at Hampshire college came 'out of the blue' for board members

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Ofsted

Ofsted reforms ‘the most sensible’ way forward, Oliver tells MPs

Chief inspector also praises watchdog’s ‘more human’ complaints process but admits to ‘concern’ over union tension

Billy Camden
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships

Revealed: DfE’s special payments to providers after funding blunder

Wheels in motion for convoy of claims after unprecedented payouts

Billy Camden
Billy Camden