by SCTP | Oct 19, 2025 | News
The recent move of skills policy for England to DWP means things will be different for Jacqui Smith, she now has offices in two Departments. But will it make any difference to policy? This FE News article by Stephen Evans, Chief Executive of Learning and Work looks...
by SCTP | Oct 19, 2025 | News
ISE’s Student Recruitment Survey 2025 launches with the latest data on the entry level jobs market. Their Student Recruitment Survey 2025 is the largest of its type. Over the last year’s student recruitment cycle, 2024 to 2025, it analyses data from 155 ISE...
by SCTP | Oct 19, 2025 | News
The Chair of the Education Committee has urged Ministers not to reduce Universal Credit support to care leavers who are aged under-22, after the Government said “no decisions have been made”. The statement was made in the Department for Education’s (DfE’s) response to...
by SCTP | Oct 19, 2025 | News
Reoffending is likely to get worse due to cuts of up to 50 per cent to prison education services, the chief inspector of prisons has warned. Charlie Taylor said today that “devastating” real-terms cuts of at least 20 per cent to prison education services in most jails...
by SCTP | Oct 19, 2025 | News
In February 2025, the DfE published the Apprenticeship Assessment Principles which introduced significant changes on how assessment will take place across all apprenticeships. Skills England is finalising the initial group of assessment plans, which are expected to be...
by SCTP | Oct 19, 2025 | News
You can now apply for national professional qualifications (NPQs). Courses will begin in November 2025 and this year the DfE hopes to run a series of further education (FE) specific groups. NPQs are professional development courses, available to teachers and leaders...
by SCTP | Oct 19, 2025 | News
Latest information from the DfE including: 1. Register for national professional qualifications; 2. Apprenticeship assessment changes coming; 3. Department for Education payments for Care to Learn and 16 to 19 Bursary Fund.
by SCTP | Oct 17, 2025 | News
Ofsted chief inspector Sir Martyn Oliver and chair Christine Gilbert were questioned by MPs on Parliament’s education committee today ahead of next month’s rollout of new-style inspections and report cards. Click here for more on what was learned from this FE Week...
by SCTP | Oct 17, 2025 | News
English and maths progress measures for 16-19 year olds will be introduced for the QAR reporting year 2024/5, for the first time since 2018/19. The DfE has published a guide to the progress measure and also an additional document which defines the qualifications in...
by SCTP | Oct 17, 2025 | News
Employers who recruit skilled workers from abroad will be asked to prove their sector invests enough in training for domestic workers. Last week, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), an arm’s-length public body, published a draft “temporary shortage list” of...
