Author: Billy Camden

The Department for Education has been accused of ignoring skills funding concerns after its international review of post-16 funding included no financial comparisons with England. The report, entitled ‘Post-16 education: funding and expenditure review’, examines funding and expenditure arrangements for vocational programmes in Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. But funding comparisons with England […]

Two providers plummeted from ‘good’ to ‘inadequate’ after recent Ofsted inspections, in a week which has seen nearly every inspected FE and skills providers drop grades. Rotherham Borough Council and ID Training, a private provider in Newcastle upon Tyne, were both handed the lowest possible rating. ID Training was given a grade four in all […]

Colleges in West Yorkshire have agreed a “landmark” partnership with the combined authority to align their annual £56 million adult education budget provision while it waits for an official devolution deal to happen. The authority – made up of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, Wakefield and York councils, and Leeds city region enterprise partnership – has […]

The Institute for Apprenticeships has failed to appoint a permanent chief executive, FE Week can reveal. A job advert for the top position at the new institute was first launched in April, with a submissions deadline date of May 22. A person for the role should have been appointed by now, but having failed to […]

The House of Lords has called for an inquiry into whether or not FE and vocational training is funded fairly. Lord Forsyth (pictured above), the chair of the economic affairs committee, is asking for written submissions to be sent in by September 14. There are a number of FE areas he is hoping to receive […]

Tenders for developing the government’s new Institutes of Technology have been put off until the autumn, skills and apprenticeships minister Anne Milton has revealed. She made the announcement in a letter sent to FE leaders yesterday, in which she also told them that teaching of the first T-levels would be delayed by a year to […]

The T-levels crisis has deepened after a new report claimed Lord Sainsbury’s recommendation to have one awarding organisation per qualification would not be viable. Research on the strengths and weaknesses of the vocational qualifications market in England was released this morning by the Department for Education. In his review of technical education, which paved the […]