Assessment, Young people Functional skills to remain as DfE unveils ‘stepping-stone’ GCSE resit courses New level 1 quals could have modular assessment to ‘bank progress’ and improve student confidence FE Week Reporter 34mins FE Week Reporter 34mins Young people Ministers shrink T Levels to boost take-up and manageability New T Levels will be smaller than any existing course, with content and assessment trimmed to ease delivery pressures Billy Camden 3h Billy Camden 3h Young people DfE misses 2025-26 T Level starts target by nearly a fifth It comes a year after the NAO cast doubt on the scalability of the technical qualifications Anviksha Patel 4h Anviksha Patel 4h Young people Revealed: The first three V Level subject areas Teaching of the new vocational courses will begin next year in digital, education and finance Josh Mellor 17h Josh Mellor 17h Young people DfE agrees to BTECs defunding delay Funding for the level 3 courses will now continue into the 2026-27 academic year as ministers amend ‘aggressive’ approach Billy Camden 17h Billy Camden 17h News Angela Middleton stripped of MBE by King Charles The ex-apprenticeship boss has honour revoked for ‘bringing the honours system into disrepute’ after owing DfE £12.5m Billy Camden 4d Billy Camden 4d Ofsted 88 providers granted Ofsted inspection delay New data shows FE providers had the highest rejection rate for inspection deferral requests across all Ofsted remits last… FE Week Reporter 4d FE Week Reporter 4d Apprenticeships Functional skills amend among DWP’s funding fixes Other rule changes in the works cover visas, subcontracting, completion payments and learning support reimbursements Billy Camden 4d Billy Camden 4d Colleges Children’s commissioner: Colleges forced to ‘mop up’ system failures Rachel de Souza says young people in post-16 education often ‘neglected’ due to a narrow focus on schools in… Josh Mellor 5d Josh Mellor 5d Inclusion, Politics DfE ‘unconcerned’ by post-16 transport cliff-edge Weak data on SEND transport leaves ministers unable to assess impacts on attendance and rising NEET numbers Shane Chowen 5d Shane Chowen 5d Awarding, Teaching, Young people Student AI confessions prompted rethink, says Bauckham Ofqual to assess awarding orgs’ AI cheating policies while chief commits to ‘no easy’ V Levels Shane Chowen 5d Shane Chowen 5d Skills reform Building and engineering boards in merger consultation Details of the proposal are due to be published next month Josh Mellor 5d Josh Mellor 5d 1 2 3 4 5 6 850 Older Must read Colleges, Politics Exclusive Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’ The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords… Jessica Hill 1w Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund 1w Colleges, Long read Investigation Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,… Jessica Hill 4w Jessica Hill 4w Colleges, Long read Exclusive Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety Shane Chowen 3mo Shane Chowen 3mo Next 3 stories Young people 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 4mo Shane Chowen 4mo 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 5mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 5mo
