Adult education, Skills reform

Revealed: ‘Significant’ funding rate increase for some adult education courses

ESFA-funded 'priority' subjects receive uplifts but it's not good news for functional skills English and maths

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Adult education

Demand doubles for free courses for jobs

Adult education statistics also show increases in level 4+ and ESOL courses, but further declines at levels 2 and...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Adult education

How to ensure ESOL meets learners’ and employers’ needs

A pilot programme in Leicester has shown what ESOL provision can achieve and how to develop even more impactful...

JL Dutaut
Caroline Fox
Adult education, Colleges

FE warm spaces help communities through the cost of living crisis

Colleges and adult learning centres talk about their efforts to support those struggling to make ends meet

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Adult education, Devolution

AEB funding rates to increase in West Midlands

Adult education budget funding will increase by 10 per cent in the West Midlands to help providers with rising...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Adult education, Colleges

London’s City Lit halts online lessons until new year after ‘IT disruption’

Online lessons at City Lit have been cancelled until the new year, but face to face lessons continue

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Adult education, Devolution

Norfolk and Suffolk obtain adult education budget powers in devolution deal

Deals for the counties are also expected to include involvement in skills

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Adult education

Pilot targeting UC claimants scales back target numbers

Industry leavers and Covid-19 disruption has hampered progress on health and care pilot

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Adult education

Edtech: Tackling the elitism that excludes adult education

We must unpick the elitism at the heart of edtech if we’re serious about delivering ‘the world’s next Silicon...

JL Dutaut
Natalie Nezhati