Young people

Gordon Brown urges Labour to ‘ignore’ pause and review promise

Ex PM and Lord Sainsbury want new government to renege on a pledge made last year to rethink level...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Awarding, Young people

NCFE fined £300k for 2022 T Level exam fiasco

Awarding body has taken measures to ensure errors will not happen again

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Young people

Revealed: Most T Level drop outs switch to axed courses

90% of T Level drop-outs that switched to other technical courses went on to qualifications due to be defunded

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

Lack of skilled workers risks major infrastructure projects going over budget, PAC warns

Major projects in FE include the T Level roll out, Skills Bootcamps and the capital transformation programme

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Young people

First T Level students: Where are they now?

Controversial industry placements were the most popular element of T Levels for the first cohort that completed them

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Young people

DfE launch T Level reviews amid ‘worrying’ drop-out rates

New figures confirm a third of 2021 T Level entrants dropped the course

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Young people

DfE could step in if T Level fee hikes hit college budgets

Awarding bodies can charge colleges higher fees if gen 2 T Levels under-recruit

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Young people

Awarding body writes off £2.5m as T Level recruitment stalls

Lower than expected T Level student numbers have hit charity NCFE's books

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Young people

IfATE backtracks on public sector T Level targets

Board members wanted to 'lobby' for placement targets but later changed their minds

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen