EuroSkills 2025

Team UK takes six medals at EuroSkills Herning

UK ‘skills olympians’ win bronze medals for industry 4.0 and five prestigious medallions for excellence at EuroSkills 2025

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
T Levels

T Level ambassador cash goes unspent despite awareness struggles

Network also fails to recruit enough employer ambassadors

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
EuroSkills 2025

Euroskills 2025: Competition comes to a roaring close

Team UK await results of their months-long efforts after finishing three-day competition

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education, Ofsted

‘Outstanding’ university bootcamps praised by Ofsted

Inspectors were impressed with the course’s ‘exceptional’ curriculum

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
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
Apprenticeships

Level 7 starts spike as employers race to beat funding axe

Early data shows one training provider has already recruited 1,000 more leadership apprentices

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen


Skills reform

Skills move risks destabilising ‘sofa surfing’ policy area

But some believe the move could cut ‘frustrating duplication’ between the DWP and DfE

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Ofsted

Ofsted reform: DfE commits to ‘pragmatic’ intervention approach

Officials will seek sector views before deciding on accountability measures under new-style report cards

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Long read, Politics

Reform plots a political tsunami, but skills policy is lost at sea

Farage’s turquoise tide: The insurgent party’s supporters want to fix ‘broken Britain’, insisting that trades and industrial automation are…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
EuroSkills 2025

Team UK comes together during day 2 of EuroSkills

Team UK pushes through tiredness and long tasks to final day of EuroSkills tomorrow

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Lynette Leith appointed Boston College principal

She replaces Claire Foster who is retiring after 30 years in FE

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
EuroSkills 2025

On your (Den)marks, get set, go

Team UK off to a strong start at EuroSkills 2025

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel

Must read

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
Long read, Prison education

The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release

‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal

Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel