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@feweek.bsky.social🚨 BREAKING: The embattled City & Guilds Foundation has pulled Ben Blackledge’s chief executive job offer just days before he was due to start.
Blackledge will stay at WorldSkills UK - which had already advertised for his successor
@feweek.bsky.social👎 The Association of School and College Leaders’ union has said it has no confidence in Ofsted’s leadership to 'address the damage being done by the new inspection system' following a vote of its ruling council
@feweek.bsky.social🗣️ A pilot to tackle weak coordination and long waiting lists for English language lessons has been launched by the Greater London Authority
@feweek.bsky.social📢 The Conservatives' two-year-old apprenticeships and HE funding policy was torn to shreds in Birmingham this week ... by its own education heavyweights ... who then fought each other, writes @ukshane.bsky.social
@feweek.bsky.social💷 Councils are scrambling to spend extra adult education funding that was previously delivered by independent training providers and overseen by Whitehall officials
@feweek.bsky.social🆕 Three quarters of FE providers inspected under Ofsted’s report card regime said the process affected staff wellbeing, according to the watchdog’s own research https://feweek.co.uk/inspections-are-harming-wellbeing-fe-staff-tell-ofsted/
@feweek.bsky.social✒️ Fewer than a quarter of councils in the UK have agreed to set up local taskforces to tackle NEET numbers in their area as part of a new drive led by Alan Milburn https://feweek.co.uk/fewer-than-a-quarter-of-councils-sign-up-to-milburns-neet-taskforce/
@feweek.bsky.social🏠 About 800 careers advice staff have moved to work in-house at the Department for Work and Pensions following 14 years of outsourcing
@feweek.bsky.social🇬🇧 Two golds, a silver, three bronzes and 13 medals for excellence: our WorldSkills Shanghai supplement has every Team UK result, @annieiseating.bsky.social's diary from the competition floor and the road to Aichi 2028 via Düsseldorf.
Read it here:
@feweek.bsky.social💷 College staff should receive a 3.5 per cent pay rise this year where members can afford it, the Association of Colleges has said
@feweek.bsky.social✅ More than nine in 10 plans outlining how local areas will implement government’s SEND reforms in return for a near-complete write off of historical deficits have been approved by ministers
@feweek.bsky.social🙅♀️ Half of England’s population will be excluded from a £240 million mayoral brokerage programme to boost apprenticeship recruitment, prompting warnings of a ‘two-tier skills system’.
@feweek.bsky.socialAnalysis: Multiverse has stretched its lead as England’s biggest training provider based on apprenticeship income after revenue jumped 45% in a year https://feweek.co.uk/masters-of-the-multiverse-net-45-apprenticeship-income-gain/
@aqaeducation.bsky.socialReposted by @feweek.bsky.socialWe finished the day with our evening receptions with @edupolicyinst.bsky.social Skills Builder UK and @schoolsweek.bsky.social & @feweek.bsky.social.
Both saw colleagues from across the education sector join with MPs and Ministers for important discussions and reflections on the conference so far.
@feweek.bsky.social💸 Two training providers face a combined £800k clawback over rule breaches - some of it through the same subcontractor.
DfE also named the wrong training provider and left the report online for over 24 hours.
@feweek.bsky.social⛅ Blue Sky Assessing & Consultancy has become the first apprenticeship provider to be rated ‘exceptional’ for inclusion under Ofsted’s report card framework https://feweek.co.uk/blue-sky-flies-as-first-apprenticeship-provider-judged-exceptional-for-inclusion/
@feweek.bsky.social🆕 Nationally procured adult skills fund contracts will end next year as the government expands its 'pathway to devolution' programme https://feweek.co.uk/national-adult-skills-fund-contracts-to-end-next-august/
@feweek.bsky.social⚽ ‘Football scouts for apprenticeships’ scheme to be expanded, with chancellor John Healey announcing an 'extra £100m' for local apprenticeship brokerage services https://feweek.co.uk/football-scouts-for-apprenticeships-scheme-to-be-expanded/
@feweek.bsky.social📢 LABOUR CONFERENCE LIVE BLOG: It’s day 2 of Labour’s party conference, with the first events now in full swing. Follow our live blog for rolling updates
@feweek.bsky.social🥇 UK skills champions have secured their best WorldSkills haul in over a decade earning 19 medals, including two gold, one silver and three bronze medals
