Skills devolution spreads with plan for six new regions Millions in skills funding will be handed to mayors, with ringfences lifted on budgets
No answers for failed T Level students in re-mark fiasco College and awarding organisation have failed to resolve the issue six months on
Come clean on cuts, demand adult education providers Providers face uncertainty after news emerged in a ‘fragmented’ fashion
Legal win fails to spark Catholic sixth form academy bids A suggestion that sixth forms could form their own trust faces barriers from bishops who aren’t used to power sharing
Ban mandatory bikini waxes on beauty students, says mum A college tutor wrongly claimed a 16-year-old needed to undergo waxing to pass her course
Sixth form college academisation reaches tipping point But some principals doubt whether the Labour wants new academy conversions
Early years qualification rules relaxed amid recruitment crisis Managers will be able to count staff with level 2 qualifications as level 3 in staff-to-child ratios
MPs to examine job centres’ new skills and careers role The government hopes integrating careers advice into job centres will boost employment
Boris’s rushed retraining scheme created huge underspend Most of the money has been quietly returned to the Treasury