Results 2025, T Levels

VTQ and T Level results 2025: 7 key trends

From industry placements to gender gaps – today’s VTQ and T Level results explained

Shane Chowen
Anviksha Patel and Shane Chowen
Results 2025

A-level results 2025: Top grades rise slightly again this year

Ofqual says results rise could be because this year’s cohort made ‘better post-16 choices’

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
A-levels, Results 2025

A-level results 2025: 8 key trends in England’s data

Your handy FE Week round up of the key trends in this year’s A-level results

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Results 2025, T Levels

T Level results 2025: Pass rate up and dropouts down

Proportion receiving top grades stays static

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Labour think tank’s radical plan to tackle apprenticeship levy’s ‘abject failure’

Give SMEs ’skin in the game’ by making more employers pay the charge, ban graduates, end the Treasury top-slice…

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Ofsted

Child’s play: Early years apprenticeship provider gets top Ofsted marks

Daycare training provider rewarded for high level of distinctions for apprentices

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel


Colleges, Skills reform

First ‘technical excellence colleges’ named in £100m construction skills drive

Colleges in every region of England will lead new hubs to train 40,000 workers by 2029

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
WorldSkills

Learning for Herning: Inside the Team UK bootcamp teaching mind over medal

WorldSkills UK competitors polish their skills, stamina and focus ahead of September’s European skills championships in Denmark

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Ofqual

Awarding body fined £15k for ‘serious’ conflict of interest failures

The company shared an office and staff with one of its test centres

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships

NHS to save level 7 apprenticeships from funding axe

‘Mitigation fund’ launched for five health and social care professions

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Skills bootcamps

Fake employer used for ‘fraudulent’ skills bootcamp cash claims

Police investigating while firm that secured £22m contracts sues DfE

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Devolution

Mayor’s money to heat up FE ‘cold spots’

Capital funding dished out to providers to target towns with a training provision ‘deficit’

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor

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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…

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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…

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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’

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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, FE Commissioner

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
Colleges

Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal

Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel