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

First bootcamps-only inspection results in glowing report

High praise for course that takes learners with no prior coding experience to 'becoming work ready within 20 weeks

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

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
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

Net zero: level 2 qualifications are crucial to green skills

Retraining our workforce to meet the country’s net zero obligations must start at level 2, writes Graham Hasting-Evans

JL Dutaut
Graham Hasting-Evans
Adult education, Awarding, Young people

Decreasing level 2 opportunities compromises levelling up

Decreasing opportunities for level 2 qualifications are a levelling up own-goal and a threat to employers, providers and learners,...

JL Dutaut
Joe Crossley
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