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Williamson ‘strongly encourages’ colleges to embrace lifetime skills guarantee level 3 offer

The education secretary has urged colleges to embrace the new level 3 offer under the lifetime skills guarantee as the £95 million scheme edges closer to its launch. Delivering a keynote speech at today’s Association of Colleges conference, Gavin Williamson said colleges will be “absolutely key” to the programme’s success and “strongly encouraged” delegates to […]

News, Skills reform

ESFA finally launches £73m adult education budget tender

The long-awaited national adult education budget tender has been launched by the Education and Skills Funding Agency. Bids for a slice of the £73 million initially up for grabs in 2021/22 are being invited over the next six weeks, with a final deadline of 22 March. The procurement includes caps depending on the type of […]

News

Delayed traineeships are unacceptable in the face of our youth unemployment crisis

There is an urgent youth unemployment crisis that needs addressing with comprehensive traineeships fast, writes Stephen Evans Young people are facing the double whammy of a disrupted education and a weakened labour market. Youth unemployment has doubled since March 2020. A period out of work when young can have serious long-term impacts, so this represents […]

Opinion

FE recruitment drive ‘pipedream’ without pay rises

Government aspirations to bolster the FE workforce “will be nothing more than a pipedream” unless colleges are given funding to raise teacher pay, a sector leader has warned. Anne Murdoch, senior advisor for college leadership at the Association of School and College Leaders and the former general secretary of the Principals’ Professional Council, raised concerns […]

News, Skills reform

Talks under way on threshold rate for college adult education under-delivery

Intense negotiations are taking place within government to determine the extent to which colleges will again be allowed to keep funding for courses that did not take place amid disruption from the pandemic. In a typical year, colleges are allowed to keep 100 per cent of the national adult education budget funding if they achieve […]

News

Profile: Ian Pryce, chief executive, The Bedford College Group

JL Dutaut meets a longstanding college leader who thinks we could all benefit from taking the long view How does a leader navigate such times? A phrase keeps coming back to me that encapsulates our sector today: “the fierce urgency of now”. When Martin Luther King, Jr coined it in 1967, it was a call […]

Profiles

DfE expanding FE teacher recruitment programme with £3m tender

Suppliers are being sought to bring as many as 4,000 teachers into the further education sector by 2025, as part of an expansion to a major recruitment scheme. The Department for Education has launched a tender, worth £3 million, for national delivery partners for the Taking Teaching Further programme, which was earmarked for an expansion […]

News, Skills reform

Colleges need to know about changes to DBS checks

Colleges that fail to make necessary changes to their DBS check procedures could face a potential claim for damages, writes Joanne Moseley If you are in the middle of recruiting new staff for your college, then you should know that you must not ask for a DBS certificate made before a date in late November. […]

Opinion

It’s risky business to have an employer-dominated skills system

The Department for Education must put more faith in local leaders rather than employers if it wants the skills white paper to work, writes Andy Norman Having just launched the long-awaited FE white paper, skills minister Gillian Keegan was asked to name its biggest reform. Her answer – embedding employers at the heart of the […]

Opinion, Skills reform