Pilot targeting UC claimants scales back target numbers Industry leavers and Covid-19 disruption has hampered progress on health and care pilot
Cornwall secures adult education and skills powers in £360m devolution deal Mayoral county deal will see devolution of AEB by 2025
Apprenticeship underspend shrinks to £11m in 2021/22 Fresh fears have been raised over future budget overspends
Ofsted gives first ‘limited’ rating to college for meeting skills contribution Strode College is among the first in the country to be inspected with the new enhanced framework
University that ramped up apprenticeships secures third ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating More than 2,000 apprentices have been recruited in the past four years
College reclassification: Major changes you need to know about Restrictions on senior pay and borrowing announced, plus bad news on VAT
Create new ‘national apprenticeship inspectorate’, says think tank EDSK also calls for a minimum of 200 hours of off-the-job training to be face-to-face learning
Over 40 organisations removed from apprentice assessment register Ofqual involvement in applications process bolsters regulation of end point assessment
Sixth form and FE college quality hits new high 100 per cent of sixth form colleges have ‘outstanding’ or ‘good’ ratings