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Let’s prioritise skills spending on level 4 to level 7

Suggestions that training spend should be limited to those with the lowest qualifications are misguided, writes Mandy Crawford-Lee In the past couple of months, there has been some very useful analysis out from the Learning and Work Institute (LWI). This includes one of its most recent reports called ‘Raising the Bar’, on the lack of […]

Opinion

How the cost of living crisis is taking its toll on FE students

Leaders reveal how families are now struggling to feed and clothe their children

News

Just £9m of adult education and non-levy apprenticeship relief funding released

Training providers were handed less than £9 million as part of a relief scheme to support adult education courses and non-levy apprenticeships during the pandemic – a fraction of the £144 million first projected to be needed.    Two rounds of supplier relief schemes were launched by the Department for Education in 2020 to retain provider […]

News, Covid-19

Union threatens results days as staff mull strike action

A pay dispute at AQA could see staff walk out over the summer, but bosses say union strike threats are ‘needlessly frightening’ students and teachers.

News, Industrial action

Union rejects AoC’s ‘totally unacceptable’ new pay offer for college staff

The pay offer has been upped to 2.5% from 2.25%

News, Colleges

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 393

Charlotte Razzell Director of Corporate Services, Education and Training Foundation Start date: June 2022 Previous Job: Director of Finance and Resources, The Early Intervention Interesting fact: Charlotte relaxes by writing science fiction stories for her children Grant Glendinning Chief Executive Officer and Group Principal, Education Training Collective Start date: August 2022 Previous Job: Executive Principal, […]

Movers and Shakers

Colleges told to raid own coffers to get students to exams during rail strike

DfE says and FE providers are ‘best placed to prioritise their spending to support their pupils and students’ during biggest rail strike in 30 years

News, Exams

Here are three ways the government can make LSIPs a success

The government must encourage employers to invest, not just benefit from, the skills system, writes David Phoenix We currently have a higher education bill, a levelling-up and regeneration bill. A key plank in delivering on these linked agendas will be skills delivery. Yet we still lack explicit details about the further rolling out of local […]

Opinion

Ministers must consider boosting minimum apprentice pay

The cost of living crisis means the government must act quickly to tackle the barriers to apprenticeship uptake, writes Suzanne Straw Apprenticeships are a key training route to help young people enter the labour market. They also have the potential to act as a vehicle for social mobility. However, our latest research highlights myriad barriers […]

Opinion