Post-16 qualifications inquiry: 5 interesting things we learned from former education ministers Witnesses were quizzed on degree apprenticeships, BTECs and getting the policy balance right between vocational and academic education
DfE climate change strategy: New FE teachers will be required to build sustainability into their teaching Existing college staff will however not be required to include sustainability into their teaching
Government may stop engaging with NUS over antisemitism allegations, minister warns But the union has hit back, accusing the minister of spreading misinformation
College staff warn of strike action if pay doesn’t increase by 10% Staff pay has fallen by 35 per cent in real terms since 2009 and an indicative ballot of UCU members has shown 91 per cent are in favour of strike action
‘Significantly’ less than half of AGQs like BTECs will get the chop, government concedes ‘Through this process we expect to remove just a small proportion of the total level 3 BTEC and other applied general style qualification offer’
Ofsted: Eight key points from latest education recovery research Providers told Ofsted that apprentices were not being given enough tasks due to pressures on businesses.
Recovering colleges’ latest Ofsted results One principal said they weren’t sure the Ofsted inspection was helpful or good value for money. Three colleges tell us their experience.
Ofsted slams SEND college for ‘highly inappropriate’ activities The watchdog found that students with special educational needs and disabilities were tube fed and medicated in classrooms in front of their peers and staff
DfE slashes grant funding for ETF It is expected that some programmes previously provided by ETF will be put out to tender by the DfE