Adult education, ITPs

Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers

Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Adult education

DfE announce 6% cut to national adult skills budgets

Funding will prioritise ‘essential sectors’ when allocations are released next month

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Employment

Benefits crackdown to reduce NEETs

But the measures risk undermining work to support young people into jobs, experts warn

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Devolution, Employment, Kickstart

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...

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

Former Middlesbrough College principal and deputy FE commissioner remembered

John Hogg played a ‘transformational’ role in FE, colleagues have said

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Ofsted

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’

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Training Providers

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

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships, ESFA

Former apprenticeship boss avoids director ban

'Errors' in funding claims did not make the director unfit to run a company, a judge ruled

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Devolution, Students

Mayor launches £100 per week payments for net zero students

One principal said the scheme has create 'quite the buzz'

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor