👶 Ministers have launched a £3.2 million grant scheme to subsidise training and employment costs in a drive to recruit 400 early years teacher degree apprentices https://feweek.co.uk/grants-launched-to-jumpstart-early-years-degree-apprenticeships/

🍒 Ofsted is requesting education providers publish a QR code link alongside any content they share from new report cards to help prevent leaders 'cherry picking' grades shared with parents and stakeholders https://feweek.co.uk/ofsted-requests-providers-publish-qr-code-with-report-card-content/

Exclusive: Leadership and management apprenticeships are on the chopping block under plans to find savings and tilt the apprenticeship system towards young people, skills minister Jacqui Smith has confirmed https://feweek.co.uk/management-apprenticeships-on-the-chopping-block-minister-confirms/

KCSIE 2026: Everything colleges need to know https://feweek.co.uk/kcsie-2026-everything-colleges-need-to-know/

Exclusive: Employers will face no cap on the amount of levy funding they can spend on new apprenticeship units when an initial ‘tight group’ launches in April, skills minister Jacqui Smith has said https://feweek.co.uk/tight-group-of-apprenticeship-units-to-launch-in-april/

✍️There is a lot to be positive about, but our recent survey found cost-of-living now tops the list of apprentices' concerns Hannah Mehr, Association of Apprentices https://feweek.co.uk/apprentices-dont-believe-their-voices-are-heard-by-ministers/

🧑‍⚖️ An ex-trainee lecturer must pay £19,000 towards her union’s costs after a judge ruled she pursued discrimination claims with 'no reasonable prospect' of success https://feweek.co.uk/ucu-wins-19k-from-teacher-it-represented-in-court-claim/

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England’s apprenticeship budget was topped up with an extra £43.2m halfway through this financial year, underscoring mounting financial pressures and intensifying government’s drive to tighten control of the system https://feweek.co.uk/apprenticeship-budget-top-up-piles-cost-pressure-on-ministers/

🪑 A new chair of the Student Loans Company has been appointed. Gary Page will oversee the organisation as it implements major reforms like the lifelong learning entitlement, which is due to open for applications in September https://feweek.co.uk/student-loans-company-turns-the-page-with-new-chair/

👏 Waltham Forest College principal Janet Gardner has announced that she will retire in August this year after six years in post https://feweek.co.uk/changing-of-the-guard-at-waltham-forest-college/

🏗️ Applications have opened for the government’s post-16 and construction capacity funding grants, as the DfE has promised a 'decade of national renewal' through a new education estates strategy https://feweek.co.uk/national-college-capacity-funding-opens-alongside-new-dfe-estates-strategy/

🪓 The Department for Education is considering the future of the T Level in finance, which launched in 2022, after no awarding organisations bid to run it in the latest procurement round https://feweek.co.uk/finance-t-level-faces-write-off-after-no-aos-bid-to-run-it/

University and College Union leader Jo Grady has accused her election opponents of taking private messages out of context and 'seeking to frame' her social media usage as a breach of campaign rules feweek.co.uk/jo-grady-hit...

👉 The Department for Work and Pensions’ most senior official has announced he is stepping down this summer. feweek.co.uk/dwp-permanen...

''Pass the learning around the classroom in the mould of a creative midfielder' Clare Dignum, South Bank Colleges on lessons FE teachers can learn from Arsenal football players

👋 Basingstoke College of Technology principal Anthony Bravo retired on Monday, leaving the college under interim leadership in the middle of the academic year feweek.co.uk/bcot-princip...

'The old infrastructure for essential skills provision is increasingly creaking and dated' @lwalexs.bsky.social , @learnworkuk.bsky.social on how joining up Jobcentres and adult learning could be a gamechanger, with the right vision

🏗️ Construction firms working on school and college buildings will be forced to offer apprenticeships and T Level placement opportunities to students to work on site, the government has said feweek.co.uk/school-and-c...

🧑‍💻 An apprenticeship brokerage pilot run by metro mayors will offer a university 'clearance style system' for young people whose applications have been rejected, the government has said feweek.co.uk/clearance-st...

'SMEs’ engagement in apprenticeships has been flagging in recent years' says Alice Gardner of @edgeuk.bsky.social - but there's an easy fix to this #NAW2026

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Inside the world of FE college 14-16 provision, where colleges are turning around the lives of anxious young people who had previously turned their backs on the education system

🆕 Ahead of National Apprenticeship Week, the government says it can slash the time it takes to update apprenticeship standards to as little as three months feweek.co.uk/ministers-to...

Providers need clarity, flexibility and time to deliver post-16 qualifications reform ✍️Michael Lemin, NCFE feweek.co.uk/v-levels-amb...

Investment alone cannot build turbines, commission hydrogen plants, or run nuclear facilities warn members of the National Energy Skills Consortium (NESC)

💸 A London scheme that paid £400 for every adult learner who found work in key sectors used only 2.5 per cent of its £5.4 million budget, FE Week can reveal feweek.co.uk/londons-adul...

🚨 One of England’s smallest colleges has been handed £1.5m in emergency funding while it explores a potential merger feweek.co.uk/1-5m-emergen...

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📢 Work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden backtracked on a statement claiming 60+ employers had committed jobs for NEET young people for the flagship job guarantee scheme feweek.co.uk/mcfadden-ove...

⏳️ The defunding of BTECs and other applied general qualifications could be delayed further, the skills minister has indicated feweek.co.uk/dfe-consider...

'There is a danger pressure is being pushed downwards' Claudia Boerescu of Waltham Forest College on the risks of AI adding more work pressure onto FE staff

🗳️ Jo Grady could face a re-ballot over her position as University and College Union leader amid claims she broke campaign rules feweek.co.uk/watchdog-to-...

A university has been fined £150,000 by the exams regulator for failing to closely monitor a music qualification test centre and 'negligence' in handling an independent audit feweek.co.uk/university-o...

🪧 Nearly two-thirds of University and College Union (UCU) staff are set to walk out next week in another row between the union and its own staff feweek.co.uk/ucu-staff-to...

📋️ Ofsted inspectors have warned against high 16 to 18 dropout rates and weak GCSE resit progress among the first FE colleges to be inspected under the inspectorate’s renewed framework feweek.co.uk/first-colleg...

Due to a focus on reading by the prison inspectorate and Ofsted, progress is being made on literacy in prisons. But new education contracts have now cut education provision across the board @jonbcollins.bsky.social @prisonersed.bsky.social

'It’s a moment to cherish, and let it all soak in' David Murray of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College muses on that Monday feeling

💼 The government’s jobs guarantee programme will include grants of up to £2,650 per participant for organisations supporting unemployed young people into paid work placements feweek.co.uk/jobs-guarant...

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'Are some holding back out of fear of judgement?' Katie Wilden, Suffolk New College on what inclusive leadership really means in colleges

Sport-mad MP @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social , who entered politics after the murder of her sister Jo Cox, tells how she hopes to draw from her career in further education to champion the sector

'Current reforms try to retrofit new qualifications into a structure that is fundamentally out of date' NOCN Group chief exec Graham Hasting-Evans on why the government's current qualification reform proposals are not right for construction pathways

💎 An overseas businessman whose adult education provider went bust last year has bought a subsidiary training company back from administrators for millions less than promised after his brother and financial backer was declared bankrupt. feweek.co.uk/jewellery-ac...

📉 Warwickshire College Group claims to have “restored financial stability” after a “difficult” couple of years that involved repaying more than £5 million in overclaimed funding feweek.co.uk/were-back-in...

'Done badly this is a disaster waiting to happen' Ben Rowland of AELP warns that tilting levy funding towards younger learners and cliff-edge defunding risks choking off progression and driving employers away

🪓 The volume of core education delivered in prisons across England will reduce by up to 25 per cent, ministers have admitted feweek.co.uk/prison-educa...

✍️ Ex-apprenticeships boss Peter Marples has been ordered to stump up most – but not all – of the Department for Education’s legal bill following the collapse of his £37m High Court claim feweek.co.uk/marples-hand...

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📆 A 'compromise approach' to a dispute about forcing colleges to move the start of their financial year from August to April has been announced feweek.co.uk/regular-acco...