Billy Camden | FE Week

Labour warns BTECs cull could hit healthcare and retail hardest

‘We want to ensure every young person can gain a level 3 qualification whether through A-levels, T Levels, BTECs or other qualifications’

Richard Branson’s Virgin Care training arm takes off with top Ofsted marks

Inspectors lauded apprentices for ‘outstanding resilience’ during the pandemic

Revealed: 39 post-16 providers to share £83m to accommodate demographic boom

An additional 260,000 16- to 19-year-olds are anticipated to be in education in the coming years

There is no T Level recruitment target, DfE maintains

It comes despite the spending review making funding available for ‘up to 100,000 students’ by 2024

AELP conference round-up: Top officials talk traineeships, achievement rates and T Levels

Providers, regulators and government representatives headed to Manchester this week for the Association of Employment and Learning Providers’ (AELP) autumn conference – the organisation’s first in-person event since the Covid-19 pandemic. FE Week has rounded up the key take-aways… ESFA’s Evans concedes traineeship target will not be met The government will “not quite” achieve its […]

Insolvency Service to take no action against directors of collapsed provider 3aaa

The Insolvency Service began investigating the company’s directors’ conduct following its collapse in 2018

College pleads for lifting of apprenticeship ban

‘We have been working to remove the suspension’

Ministers play down BTECs cull

They have gone as far as to blame the media for fuelling a belief there will be a binary choice between A-levels and T Levels

T Level placements CAN be done remotely, DfE announces

Up to 40% of placement hours can be spent not in the workplace