Chancellor to pour £600m into construction training Plans include technical excellence colleges, cash incentives for foundation apprenticeships, skills bootcamps and more
Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets
DfE announce 6% cut to national adult skills budgets Funding will prioritise ‘essential sectors’ when allocations are released next month
Benefits crackdown to reduce NEETs But the measures risk undermining work to support young people into jobs, experts warn
Mayors reboot Kickstart scheme for employment score With nearly a million young people now classed as not in education, employment or training, mayors are revamping a scrapped jobs scheme
Former Middlesbrough College principal and deputy FE commissioner remembered John Hogg played a ‘transformational’ role in FE, colleagues have said
Ofsted open to ‘another consultation’ on inspection reforms if sector demands rethink Watchdog’s national director also insists report card proposals do not ‘throw the baby out with the bath water’
SWAPs is for keeps despite questions over its success The government will fund 100,00 starts on the training and work experience scheme next year
Former apprenticeship boss avoids director ban ‘Errors’ in funding claims did not make the director unfit to run a company, a judge ruled