Apprenticeships

Apprenticeship budget top-up piles cost pressure on ministers

Mid-year adjustment to 2025-26 allocation reinforces warnings the system is operating on increasingly fine margins

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

£1.5m emergency funding as Newbury considers merger

Cashflow pressure has been eased while the FE Commissioner reviews the college's long-term future

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

DfE considers BTEC defunding delay

Transition plan to new V Levels set to be published alongside level 3 and below pathways consultation response in...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Marples handed bill for DfE’s legal costs

Million-pound sums highlight how legal action against government is out of reach for most training providers

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships, Young people

More digging of foundation apprenticeships needed after just 36 starts

2 of the 7 new foundation standards failed to recruit a single apprentice between August and October

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Awarding

FAB elects Tim Bennett-Hart as next chair

He will succeed Charlotte Bosworth on February 10 - and will be joined by Kelle McQuade as vice chair

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Employer fears spread over apprenticeship ‘streamlining’

Ministers vow to work 'intensively with business on the right balance' as they stress that no decisions have been...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

DfE raises stakes in fraudulent apprenticeship funding court fight

Officials countersue ex-provider for £800k after alleged unlawful use of skills funding to pay apprentice wages

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Revealed: First 93 apprenticeships chosen for assessment reform

40 construction standards also listed for revision but only once a new taskforce irons out specific industry concerns

Billy Camden
Billy Camden