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Reshuffle: Michelle Donelan taking FE and skills brief – sources

FE Week understands Donelan, who now attends cabinet, will be given the FE brief.

News, Cabinet reshuffle, Politics

Nadhim Zahawi: 12 facts about the new education secretary

Downing Street has announced that Nadhim Zahawi is the new education secretary following Boris Johnson’s reshuffle. Here is what we know about him: 1. Born in 1967, Nadhim Zahawi is 54 years old, five years older than the average starting age of education secretaries, 49. But he’s far from the oldest person to take the […]

News, Cabinet reshuffle, Politics

Tripling traineeships target missed by half, and 3 other findings from today’s Plan for Jobs progress report

The government has missed its target to triple the number of traineeships by more than half, a new report has revealed. And the number of new apprenticeships that have been created following the launch of employer cash incentives fell 15,000 short of the government’s 100,000 target. The Treasury revealed the figures in a progress report […]

News, Covid-19

DfE launches digital service for advertising levy transfers

DfE launch their scheme enabling levy payers to advertise their available funds for transfer.

News, Apprenticeships

Confirmed: Williamson sacked as education secretary in reshuffle

The MP for South Staffordshire has been in post since July 2019

News, Cabinet reshuffle, Politics

Numbers have to rise for T Levels to change things for the better

If BTECs continue to be perceived as easier, institutions will always be tempted to teach them, says Ed Reza Schwitzer Government gets a lot wrong. I worked in the Department for Education for six years, and for every new policy we introduced there was always a group that disagreed (and it was sometimes proved right).  […]

Opinion

Ofqual and the Institute are united across their distinctive roles

There is no benefit to anyone if our quality roles compete, write Simon Lebus and Jennifer Coupland Ofqual and the Institute are united in pursuit of our common goal. Both our organisations wish to ensure all apprenticeships and technical qualifications deliver world-class results for employers and learners. Employer-led reforms have already benefitted apprenticeships and T […]

Opinion

Legal risk to providers over lack of non-binary options

Providers are warning they face “massive” legal and reputational risk because the Education and Skills Funding Agency continues to make students choose a sex rather than their gender to enrol on courses. Currently, the individualised learner record, which providers have to fill in with a student’s information to access funding, mandates learners choose either male […]

News

Nadhim Zahawi appointed education secretary in ‘build back better’ reshuffle

He is a former apprenticeships adviser to the prime minister

News, Cabinet reshuffle, Politics