Author: Fraser Whieldon

A mother bullied out of school aged 13, and an agency which fights serious and organised crime nationwide are among those recognised at this year’s Festival of Learning awards.  The awards, run by the Learning and Work Institute (LWI), recognise the inspiring stories of adult learners, and top-notch adult learning providers, tutors and employers.  Skills minister Gillian […]

Awarding organisations are being sought to develop T Levels in areas such as media, animal care, and hair and beauty for the fourth year of the flagship qualification’s rollout.  The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) has today published an invitation to tender for suppliers to help design the eight pathways set to start […]

The next two WorldSkills competitions, set to take place in Shanghai in China in 2021 and Lyon in France in 2023, have both been postponed by a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  Competition organisers WorldSkills International announced today the competitions will instead take place in 2022 and 2024 respectively.  This comes after the EuroSkills competition, […]

The 68 apprenticeship standards which will have the quality assurance of end-point assessments transferred from the Institute of Apprenticeships and Technical Education to Ofqual in November have been revealed. The standards (see the full list below) all currently use the institute (IfATE) for external quality assurance (EQA), but these duties will be transferred over to […]

The government should introduce a duty on colleges to deliver an education offer aligned to employer needs, a commission of leading FE figures have said. But the report does not explain how this duty would be enforced, and does not go as far as a report by think tank EDSK from September, which said colleges […]

Colleges which apply for government bailouts will not automatically fall into formal intervention from now on, the Department for Education has said.  The department’s ‘College oversight’ policy was today amended to say they reserve the right, where a college makes a request for emergency funding to continue running, to place the college into formal intervention […]

The Department for Education has announced today any provider delivering 16 to 19 study programmes will be able to run T Levels from 2024.  In an update to its ‘T Levels: next steps for providers’ document, the Education and Skills Funding Agency said: “By 2024 all T Levels will have been delivered for at least […]