Apprenticeships

End point assessment data will finally be public, watchdog says

Ofqual will release end point assessment outcome data for the first time later this year

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics

Pension reform benefits wealthy bosses as FE overlooked (again)

Sector leaders have expressed their disappointment that big FE funding issues, like teacher pay, were overlooked in the budget

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

AAC 2023: We’re at a pivotal moment to reshape apprenticeships

The Annual Apprenticeship Conference 2023 might be over, but from functional skills to social mobility, there's a lot to...

Shane Chowen
Kirstie Donnelly
Adult education, Funding

Dismay as AEB funding boost excludes key skills shortages – and women 

The Department for Education has defended its decision to exclude key skills shortage areas from in-year AEB funding increases

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Lifelong Learning

The devil lurks in the detail of government’s lifelong loan response

Some clarity on the lifelong loan entitlement is welcome, but the debate over access to lifelong learning is far...

Shane Chowen
Gordon Marsden
Apprenticeships, Spring budget

Ex-DfE ministers call for ‘apprenticeship levy 2.0’

Familiar faces Greening and Milton, who were education ministers when the apprenticeship levy launched in 2017, have joined calls...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Adult education, Higher education, Lifelong Learning, Skills reform

Lifelong loan entitlement: Maintenance loans in and ELQ rule out

Students studying higher level courses under the lifelong loan scheme will have access to maintenance loans following years of...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
News

Limb to chair relaunched Lifelong Education Institute

The current chair, former minister Chris Skidmore MP, is standing down at the end of the month to focus...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
SEND

SEND plan: less big bang and more damp squib for FE

A lack of policies for 16-25 year old students with SEND brings in to question the government’s commitment to...

Shane Chowen
Ruth Perry