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The Department for Education is tendering for research into how Covid-19 has impacted students and staff. The “rapid” data and literature review will consider “harms” on mental and physical health, domestic violence and loss of learning. Working on behalf of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), the DfE project is worth up to £85,000 […]
News, Covid-19
A tool that allows apprentices to give feedback on their training provider via text has been delayed again and will not be launched for at least another year, if ever. The Education and Skills Funding Agency’s Digital Service has been developing the feature for a number of years and its launch was originally set for […]
News
Challenging CEO stereotypes is one thing, but Rebecca Conroy’s relentless and contagious positivity must have an explanation. JL Dutaut finds out Chief executive. The title conjures up hard-nosed decision-makers in sharp suits. Google the words and still to this day the image results will return very few women. I’m happy to say that my experience […]
Profiles
The exam board Pearson has launched a “major” consultation into the future of exams, following calls for GCSEs to be scrapped. Former education secretaries Damian Hinds, Baroness Morris and Lord Blunkett will sit on an expert panel to advise and steer a research project looking at assessment and qualifications for young people aged between 14 […]
With the income colleges make from international students plummeting, FE Week spoke with college and sector leaders to understand why this is happening, why foreign students are so important and what can be done to keep them coming. Income from international students studying at UK universities and other higher education institutions is up two-thirds since […]
New provider monitoring visits have been delayed indefinitely by Ofsted. The inspectorate previously said it would restart the visits from January face-to-face but later announced they would be conducted remotely until at least the February half-term in light of the third national lockdown. The virtual monitoring visits to providers that are new to delivering apprenticeships […]
All providers on the government’s register of apprenticeship training providers (RoATP) will need to reapply yet again over the course of the next year as plans for another “refresh” are unveiled. The Education and Skills Funding Agency published further details today about the next phase of register which has been closed to new applicants since […]
Whether it’s teaching in prisons or walking on hot coals, Steve Kelly, principal at Keighley College near Bradford, says the biggest lesson in life is to trust Steve Kelly was trusted early on in his teaching career. There he was, sat in a PGCE class at Charles Keene College in Leicester as a slightly older […]
Yesterday afternoon a group of sector leaders and policymakers took part in an FE Week roundtable to mark National Apprenticeship Week. The roundtable, in partnership with NCFE, was an opportunity to debate and explore the impact of the FE white paper published last month on apprenticeships. Watch now Roundtable Title: Quantity AND quality: FE White […]
