WorldSkills UK national finals 2025 1/12/2025 Find out more Skills reform Skills England launches beta version of skills classification tool Skills classification tool to be fully rolled out next year Anviksha Patel 1h Anviksha Patel 1h News Animal care awarding body acquired by private equity-backed firm VetSkill Ltd has joined Phenna Group FE Week Reporter 2h FE Week Reporter 2h Devolution, Long read Long read The politics behind the King of the North’s MBacc mission Andy Burnham is grabbing headlines with his ambition for the MBacc technical education programme. But take-up has been slower… Jessica Hill 11h Jessica Hill 11h News Revealed: The 2025 Pearson Teaching Awards winners Outgoing FE Commissioner Shelagh Legrave honoured with a special lifetime achievement award FE Week Reporter 2d FE Week Reporter 2d WorldSkills UK WorldSkills UK national finals: Welsh colleges top 2025 medal table ‘The future of the economy’ honoured as gold, silver and bronze medals awarded after a tough week of national… Anviksha Patel 3d Anviksha Patel 3d WorldSkills UK WorldSkills UK: 2025 foundation skills medallists announced Over 70 SEND and high needs students competed in eight national skills competition finals in Cardiff today Anviksha Patel 3d Anviksha Patel 3d Colleges, Staff UCU reveals January strike days in 32 colleges Teachers and lecturers will walk out for three days over pay and workloads Anviksha Patel 3d Anviksha Patel 3d Colleges DfE’s £20m spike cash helps buy 9,000 student places With student numbers climbing sharply, colleges in northern England are using emergency cash to buy new buildings and convert… Josh Mellor 3d Josh Mellor 3d Sponsored post Sponsored Bett UK 2026: Learning without limits Education is humanity’s greatest promise and our most urgent mission. Tyler Palmer 3d BETT Show 2026 3d Apprenticeships, Budget 2025 Reeves puts the ‘squeeze’ on big employers with budget levy tweaks Chancellor warned that trio of reforms ‘risks dampening appetite among levy-paying organisations already dealing with rising hiring, pension and… Billy Camden 3d Billy Camden 3d Qualifications, Skills reform Officials hesitate over V Level licence model DfE is also seeking views on whether the new qualification should be ‘small’ or ‘medium’ sized Josh Mellor 4d Josh Mellor 4d 1 2 3 4 5 6 837 Older Must read 16-19 Long read Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals Anviksha Patel 4w Anviksha Patel 4w 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 1mo Shane Chowen 1mo Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 1mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 1mo Next 3 stories Qualifications Exclusive 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 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo Colleges, Long read 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo
