Politics, Skills reform

Keegan: The 3 ‘gamechangers’ for FE

Education secretary says local skills improvement plans 'will work', lauds IoTs and pleads for more teachers

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Ofsted to inspect skills bootcamps after sounding quality alarm

Inspections will begin from April 2023

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Colleges, Politics, Skills reform

No plans for new ‘elite’ technical colleges, skills minister suggests

Robert Halfon says PM refers to existing Institutes of Technology in education plans

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
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
Skills reform

DfE delays ‘devastating’ level 2 qualification reforms for a year

But plans to scrap thousands of level 2 and below courses go ahead

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Revealed: 1 in 3 at risk BTECs saved from the chop

DfE publishes 'final' list of level 3 quals that overlap with first ten T Levels

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

DfE outlines next steps for UK’s first skills taxonomy

DfE puts out notice for first two-year phase of work to develop skills map

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships, Skills reform

Small businesses should pay into an ‘apprenticeship and skills levy’, says think tank

Radical shake-up of apprenticeship levy proposed by EDSK says small firms should pay into the pot

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Skills reform

The funding consultation doesn’t tackle our biggest challenges – but there’s hope

FE desperately needs simplified funding lines but this consultation must go further, writes Marguerite Hogg It didn’t seem like...

Jess Staufenberg
Marguerite Hogg