Adult education, Lifelong Learning

Ed Balls among inaugural Get the Nation Learning award winners

Former politician and broadcast production company recognised for lifelong learning commitments

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Skills reform

1-week apprenticeship ‘units’, and 5 other things we learned from Smith’s white paper briefing

Skills minister also defends adult education plans and explains the need to introduce laws that ban ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Josh Mellor
Ofsted

High Court rejects NAHT’s Ofsted report card judicial review plea

Leaders’ union ‘will now consider an appeal’ and will consult members about possibility of moving to industrial action

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
News, Webinar

Unwrapping the White Paper – Live Stream

Join FE Week live for Unwrapping the White Paper – a sector briefing with the Minister for Skills exploring…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Adult education

Adult learning dips after post-pandemic boom

Rates of learning also highlight societies deep inequalities, findings suggest

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

DfE names FE teacher training taskforce members

Wigan and Leigh College principal Anna Dawe will chair the group

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


SEND

NAO: SEND transport cuts could increase NEETs

Critical new report sparks fresh calls for extended transport entitlements for post-16 SEND learners

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Ofqual

Ofqual to publicly ‘rebuke’ rule-breaking awarding bodies

The regulator says the new punishment will help it take a more ‘agile’ approach

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships

First reformed apprenticeship plans released amid pilot delays

New plans ‘clearly challenged’ Skills England, says awarding boss

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Training Providers

AQA buys Realise Training in latest vocational expansion

Exam body snaps up large apprenticeship and training provider from private equity sellers

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE

A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, Ofsted

‘One bad employer’ blamed for provider’s ‘inadequate’ Ofsted result

Inspectors found few apprentices released from work for off-the-job training

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel

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News

Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE

A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Long read

Colleges on the frontline of a divided nation

As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read

Alun Francis, chair of the Social Mobility Commission

Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill