Skills reform, Young people

DfE reveals plan to scrap thousands of level 2 and below qualifications

Courses that are 'too narrowly focused' such as plumbing or bricklaying face the chop

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform, Young people

Ofqual proposes stricter controls on BTECs that survive qualifications cull

Regulators have unveiled plans for more “rigorous” controls over the BTECs and other post-16 qualifications which survive a planned...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Adult education, Young people

Sustainability is now the ‘fourth functional skill’

Students at AELP’s first-ever green skills summit say sustainability should be learnt alongside English, maths and digital, writes Nichola...

Jess Staufenberg
Nichola Hay
Young people

Spending rules for 16-19 increase ‘sensible and proportionate’, say leaders

Here's how colleges and training providers will be allowed to spend extra 16-19 study programme funding next year.

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges, Young people

Levelling up: Plans for ‘elite’ new sixth forms and skills ‘mission’

Education and skills policies from the much anticipated levelling up white paper will also include a new 'future skills...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Training Providers, Young people

What a waste: sector exasperated as £65m for traineeships is handed back to Treasury

Provider procurement delays to blame, says minister

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships, Training Providers, Young people

Apprenticeship starts recovering to pre-pandemic levels, DfE data shows

But traineeships are still struggling to take off

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Young people

BTEC funding to be debated in parliament after petition hits 100k signatures

Over 20,000 people signed the petition in just two days

Will Nott
Will Nott
Young people

Universities are stuck between a rock and a hard place on T Levels

Accepting students with T Levels is more complicated than it looks, writes Nick Hillman There is just one objective...

Jess Staufenberg
Nick Hillman