Adult education, Apprenticeships

8 interesting things we learned from today’s FE data drop

Traineeships and public sector apprenticeship target flops among the findings

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Adult education

Large HGV training provider goes bust blaming inadequate funding

Over 100 staff and 2,000 learners, mostly on bootcamps, affected

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

Council’s main adult education provider closes suddenly

The adult education charity had served more than 30,000 students in ten years, but 'trading conditions' forced trustees to...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Adult education

Skills for jobs aren’t the only factor for surviving the cost-of-living crisis

A skills policy focused on employment to the detriment of other social benefits would be a false economy and...

JL Dutaut
Simon Parkinson
Adult education

Regional and social class divides in adult learning put ‘levelling up’ plans at risk, LWI warns

Gap widens for adult learning between highest and lowest performing regions in the UK

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Adult education

‘Amazing’: WEA awards winners celebrated at House of Lords

‘The bravest things you see are adults stepping back into a community venue to learn something new’ said WEA's...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Adult education, Skills reform

Rebranding the ‘lifelong loan entitlement’ would make the policy more appealing

Researchers find language of 'lifelong loan' unappealing to future adult learners

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Adult education

The DfE’s consultation puts family learning at stake

Juliette Collier and Julia Wright explain why proposals in the funding and accountability consultation which closed last week could...

JL Dutaut
Juliette Collier and Julia Wright
Adult education

Winners of inaugural London Adult Learning Awards revealed

The London Ambulance Service and Greggs are among the winners of the very first Mayor of London Adult Learning...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen