Dec 13, 2024 · Teachers say they are more productive, save time spent commuting and enjoy a better work-life balance now they work from home each Wednesday. St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College in West London is trialling a timetable that compresses classes into four days to give teaching staff one dedicated day a week for planning, preparation and assessment.

Dec 12, 2024 · Ministers have scrapped a construction T Level due to a “lack of demand”. The onsite construction T Level, which had 75 completers in its first year and 138 in the next, will take on no further enrolments.

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Sep 23, 2024 · The government plans to remove some level 7 apprenticeships from the scope of levy funding, FE Week understands. Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer is expected to highlight steps to reform the apprenticeship levy into a growth and skills levy – so that it can be used to pay for other types of training – during his speech at Labour’s party conference tomorrow.

Dec 19, 2024 · Oliver told FE Week in September that a new framework for FE and skills inspections would “better tailor our inspections to the diverse range of provision in the sector.” “This means the framework needs to work as well for classroom-focused qualifications as it does for employer-led vocational and technical training,” he said at the time.

Jan 8, 2025 · Calls to ban graduates from publicly funded apprenticeships have resurfaced after new data revealed over £400 million in levy funds was spent on people who already held a bachelor’s degree or higher last year. Freedom of Information request figures show that one in six apprentices (56,000) were university alumni in 2023/24, including 14,000 people with

Dec 4, 2024 · An influential committee of MPs has urged ministers not to defund courses that rival T Levels, like BTECs, days before the government is expected to publish the outcome of its long-awaited level 3 review.

Administrators called in after DfE and MCAs end provider’s contracts. The company earned millions providing publicly funded courses for adults seeking work before being judged 'inadequate' by Ofsted

Jan 6, 2025 · Sixth form college leaders have dropped legal action against the government’s FE teacher pay snub after ministers “agreed to provide funding” to support a wage increase in 2024/25.