Search Results for

The following 5588 results have been found to match your search query:

‘apprenticeships’

A tertiary future for Wales

The commission will have the power to institute a register of providers and establish quality assurance frameworks

News, Wales

Richard Branson’s Virgin Care training arm takes off with top Ofsted marks

Inspectors lauded apprentices for ‘outstanding resilience’ during the pandemic

News, Ofsted

Scrapping BTECs is bad for levelling up and for BAME students

It’s difficult to see how reducing choice at level 3 by scrapping BTECs will improve social mobility and diversity, writes Kasim Choudhry Government plans to remove funding for qualifications such as BTECs could negatively impact progression opportunities for learners and the availability of skilled labour for employers, but for BAME learners, local communities and employers it could be a bigger blow. The government recognised and promoted the […]

Opinion, Qualifications

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