News

Extra-curricular and student support cuts exposed

Two thirds of colleges and schools have had to cut extra-curricular activities and student support services due to crippling...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Milton appears to back subcontractor inspections

The skills minister has appeared to agree that Ofsted should inspect subcontractors during an exchange at education questions in...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Greening ‘all talk’ on BAME apprenticeships

The education secretary has been accused of putting more talk than action into growing apprenticeships amongst ethnic minorities. Justine...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Halfon: ‘Ofsted must start inspecting subcontractors’

The head of the Commons education select committee wants a “wholesale review” into why Ofsted is yet to inspect...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

Big BAME focus – really?

The government went to the trouble of setting a target in 2015 to increase apprenticeship starts for ethnic minorities,...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

ESFA plans new ‘trusted provider status’ for employer levy account management

The government revealed today that they are working on a plan to allow employers to hand over much of...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Off-the-job training rule hangs over AELP autumn conference

The government must urgently address employer resistance to the minimum off-the-job training apprenticeship rule, the AELP has said ahead...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofsted watch: Anxious wait for loans learners after private provider’s damning grade four

Learners will face an anxious wait after an independent training provider that’s heavily focused on FE-loan funded provision was...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Unison recommends members reject ‘disappointing’ 1% pay offer

A major public sector union has recommended that its members reject this year’s “disappointing” FE pay offer, and industrial...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden