Jobs plans put onus on employers to hire within UK ‘Expert’ civil servants will lead on workforce skill strategies in a bid to lower immigration levels
‘Devastating’ prison education cuts will fuel reoffending, warns chief inspector Many prisoners return to causing ‘mayhem’ in their community after their release
Principals scratch their heads over new improvement teams FE leaders warn Labour’s regional improvement teams risk duplicating oversight already performed by the FE Commissioner
Skills England urged to confront government on FE funding Joint AoC and UUK report also calls for ‘excessive’ competition to be challenged
ITPs face automatic ‘inadequate’ financial rating for late accounts DfE urged to take proportionate approach to financial health rating punishment
UCU launches England-wide college strike ballot The Association of Colleges says the union’s 10 per cent pay rise demand is unaffordable
DfE removes funding to develop HTQ courses The fund aimed to boost uptake of higher level technical qualifications
CCC teachers begin strikes over sixth-form pay freeze Their pay could be frozen for up to 3 years until a ‘discrepancy’ between their salaries and the rest of the group’s staff is removed
Maintenance grants to return under the LLE, Phillipson announces Value of the grants will be revealed at next month’s budget