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City & Guilds appoints first female chair

The sector leader with 25 years experience of FE says she is ‘delighted’ to take the role

News, Awarding

Spending review: Government criticised for ‘warm words’ on skills investment

FE leaders have been left frustrated by the lack of clarity

News, Politics

Spending review: funding boosts for 16-19 and adult training

Treasury trails skills spending announcements ahead of the spending review.

News, Politics

Skills Bill: More government defeats as Lords debate careers, universal credit and apprenticeships

The “report stage” in the House of Lords ended last night

News, Skills reform

Bootcamps evaluation rings spending review alarm bells

The government is oblivious to how many people from the first wave secured a job or received a pay rise

News, Adult education, Politics

Diversity toolkit launched to broaden apprenticeship intake

Gathering data on apprentices, paying them more, and offering more level 2 courses are among the recommendations

News

Double the cash incentives so more young people do apprenticeships

Since apprenticeship reforms, providers have had to front up more of the costs, writes Jane Hickie The pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on young people and their employment and learning opportunities. Since the advent of the 2017 reforms, fewer young people have participated in apprenticeships.   So the right balance of incentives and funding […]

Opinion

FE’s educational ethos is being overshadowed by market logic

The vocabulary of employability and finance is taking over, writes Zahid Naz In recent years there has been a shift away from the social values of education towards a form of economic rationality with two main concerns. This can be seen in the strategic direction of policy initiatives, such as the 2019 education inspection framework […]

Opinion, The Staffroom - opinion

Make climate education compulsory and give us £1.5bn to build sustainable campuses, colleges tell government

Their demands have been made in a letter signed by 150 college bosses to prime minister Boris Johnson and education secretary Nadhim Zahawi.

News, Colleges