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OfS chief stepping down next spring

Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi has thanked her for her ‘excellent work improving access to higher education’

News, Office for Students

I was a school refuser – I wish I’d known about FE

Let’s hope today’s school refusers are told about college, because I wasn’t, writes Katy George Every week when Monday rolled around, I’d feel a despairing knot in the pit of my stomach, only undone by the arrival of the next weekend. For Friday evening and most of Saturday, I’d have a sense of relief – […]

Opinion, The Staffroom - opinion

Net zero in FE: ‘Why aren’t we doing this yet?’

With the world’s eyes on the UK at COP26, Jess Staufenberg looks at who’s coming up with a proper net zero plan for the FE sector With impeccable timing ahead of this and next week’s global climate summit in Glasgow, a report came out that cut through the hype. Every corner of society is failing […]

Feature, News, Climate Change

Spending review: You can’t spend rhetoric on classroom upgrades or staff pay awards

A real skills revolution would not have been as ambiguous as last week’s Autumn Budget

Opinion, Spending Review

Education behind bars: five ex-prisoners tell MPs of their learning experiences

The quality of prison education came in for criticism, with one witness saying theirs was ‘dreadful’

News, Prison education

AELP conference round-up: Top officials talk traineeships, achievement rates and T Levels

Providers, regulators and government representatives headed to Manchester this week for the Association of Employment and Learning Providers’ (AELP) autumn conference – the organisation’s first in-person event since the Covid-19 pandemic. FE Week has rounded up the key take-aways… ESFA’s Evans concedes traineeship target will not be met The government will “not quite” achieve its […]

News

College pleads for lifting of apprenticeship ban

‘We have been working to remove the suspension’

News

Level 2 business admin apprenticeship replacement ‘some distance off’, warns quango chief

The proposal for a level 2 business administration replacement is “some distance off” the quality bar for apprenticeships, a senior Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education official has said. Chief operating officer Robert Nitsch told today’s Association of Employment and Learning Providers’ autumn conference he would not commit to giving the proposed standard a “rubber […]

News

Universities could be incentivised to run degree apprenticeships, minister suggests

University representatives have highlighted other areas which should be tackled first, though

News, Apprenticeships