Skills reform

Skills England launches beta version of skills classification tool

Skills classification tool to be fully rolled out next year

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

Animal care awarding body acquired by private equity-backed firm

VetSkill Ltd has joined Phenna Group

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Devolution, 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
Jessica Hill
News

Revealed: The 2025 Pearson Teaching Awards winners

Outgoing FE Commissioner Shelagh Legrave honoured with a special lifetime achievement award

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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
Anviksha Patel


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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel
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
Josh Mellor
Sponsored post

Bett UK 2026: Learning without limits

Education is humanity’s greatest promise and our most urgent mission.

Tyler Palmer
BETT Show 2026
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
Billy Camden
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
Josh Mellor

Must read

16-19

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
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
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