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Here are 3 urgent ways T Levels still need reforming

Everything from too-strict entry requirements to the exams timetable are stopping T Levels from working on the ground, writes Vernon Shaw T Levels need urgent reform if they are to become the option of choice for the majority 16-19-year-olds who want to progress into skilled employment or higher technical education.  At the moment, T Levels […]

Opinion, T Levels

Local skills improvement plans: What the trailblazer reports look like

Spanning over 500 pages in total, the “trailblazer” local skills improvement plans – a key plank of the government’s “employers-first” skills reforms – have been published. Shane Chowen takes a look to see if they live up to the hype. The pros and cons of an “employers-first” skills policy have filled column inches in FE Week since […]

News, Opinion, Skills reform

SMEs lack incentive to invest in green skills

Not much is in place to encourage smaller construction businesses to go green, write Andrea Laczik and Kat Emms This week, the Department for Education published its sustainability and climate change strategy. It includes pledges such as all FE staff integrating sustainability into their teaching, and new capital projects being evaluated on whether they are […]

Opinion, Climate Change

Lia Nici, prime minister’s parliamentary private secretary

Lia Nici is the first ever FE teacher to be the prime minister’s ‘eyes and ears’ in Westminster – his parliamentary private secretary. She tells Jess Staufenberg why complaining about the system is not the answer Lia Nici is waving at me from the other end of Portcullis House. There’s a relaxed Thursday afternoon feel […]

Profiles

SMEs frustrated as DfE refusal to reset non-levy cap halts apprenticeship starts

Employers reveal they are being forced to cancel recruitment plans and turn apprentices away

News, Apprenticeships

Don’t solely blame ‘the careers system’ for low apprenticeship starts 

Many of the issues putting young people off apprenticeships are in the control of employers and providers, not careers advisers, writes Laura-Jane Rawlings  At the Annual Apprenticeship Conference last week, it was interesting to hear claims that the careers education system is still not delivering for apprenticeships.  Frustrating as it is that the conversation has […]

Opinion, Apprenticeships

British Army seeks ITPs to support their apprenticeship programme – contracting launch 

An upcoming event will cover how ITPs can tender for these support contracts

News, Sponsored post, Sponsored post

‘Significantly’ less than half of AGQs like BTECs will get the chop, government concedes

‘Through this process we expect to remove just a small proportion of the total level 3 BTEC and other applied general style qualification offer’

News, Qualifications, T Levels

Flagship teacher recruitment programme opens to more specialisms

Training providers and colleges can now apply to for funding for recruits to English, maths and SEND teaching posts through the programme.

News, Teaching