Skills bootcamps

Skills bootcamps: Study finds ‘inappropriate’ interviews and already-skilled workers on courses

Research of wave 2 bootcamps finds more than half of learners already have level 4 or above qualifications

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Skills reform

Do we need LEPs after all?

Local enterprise partnerships explain what may be lost on the local skills front if LEPs are defunded

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Ofsted, UTCs

Ofsted reports discomfort at ‘blurred boundaries’ between UTC learners and staff

Inspectors drop 'outstanding' UTC Reading to 'inadequate' in new report

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
News

Ministers lift ban on skills bootcamps for Restart participants

DfE and DWP confirm Restart participants can do skills bootcamps from April

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships, Skills reform

DfE scraps apprentice cap for small businesses

Skills Minister Robert Halfon says small businesses can recruit as many apprentices as they need from April

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Ofsted

Nottingham provider ‘taken by surprise’ over Ofsted ‘inadequate’ report

Provider says Ofsted's report 'doesn't reflect feedback' on site

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Mental Health

College student suicide risk on the rise, ‘stark’ report reveals

AoC mental health survey finds 95 per cent of colleges reporting increase in mental health disclosures

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Colleges

Unions submit 15% college pay demand to AoC

Negotiations to begin on April 19 over unions' 15 per cent pay request

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
BTECs

Keegan resists calls to rethink BTEC defunding plan

Leaders warn it 'makes absolutely no sense' to press on with axing existing level 3s. 

Jason Noble
Jason Noble