Fare well, Tim Apple. I will miss replying ‘good morning’ to you in your keynotes.

City & Guilds members vote in favour of independent inquiry Members of the City & Guilds Foundation have voted for an independent inquiry into the sale of its awarding business, following pressure from an action group

🚨Members at City & Guilds Foundation have voted in favour of an independent inquiry into the sale of its commercial awarding and training arms

Trustees will "consider" their next steps

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Good morning from Tokyo, where it's nearly 7am and I'm too excited to sleep.

Only have three days here and a to-do list the size of JP Tower.

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The moon taken on an iPhone

Artemis astronauts now sharing photos of the moon they have taken with their iPhones.

The lights are switched off on the spaceship so they can take photos better.

At this point my major capitalist rebellion is skipping ads on podcasts

Good to see @feweek.bsky.social's Anviksha Patel digging into the data on cuts to prison education provision published earlier this week.

Last year, North Sea Camp had 92% attendance at education, the third highest of any prison. Now its education provision has been cut by 58%.

"Prisons minister Lord Timpson stressed there were no cuts to the budget, but the cost of delivering education has increased significantly, causing decreases in education delivery hours."

It's always fascinating how rapidly GOATS go native.

Revealed: Prisons with most severe cuts to education hours Harsher sentence for education time in Greater Manchester and Merseyside jails

📖 New contracts have seen prison education delivery drop by a staggering 130,000 hours

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Earpiece exam cheat ring jailed over construction test fraud A cheating ringleader who helped candidates pass construction health and safety tests by feeding answers through an earpiece has been jailed for two years.

‼️Breaking: Jail time for qualification fraudsters

Sushil Kumar, Pradeep Sheregear and Jaspal Saini were convicted of fraud this afternoon in a "sophisticated" cheating scam in construction health and safety exams

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Missing teenagers suggests a worthless guarantee More than one million teenagers have fallen through the cracks of a flagship government ‘guarantee’ to offer every school leaver suitable post-16 education

For over a million young people, the so-called 'September guarantee' is far from it

@joshmellor.bsky.social investigates how tens of thousands of school leavers are falling through the cracks each year while councils admit they don’t know where many of them end up

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Coming up in this week’s FE Week:

🎯Apprenticeships achievements hit a high as new 70% target set
🚀Level 7 cut-off boom revealed as under-19 starts hit another low
😵September ‘guarantee’ missed over a million young people

PROFILE: Bill Jones, Luminate Education Group

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🍨Defunded apprenticeships were good enough for government departments to hire right up to funding being withdrawn
🪓 Analysis of this week’s defunding & units announcements
🔍 We look at past attempts to encourage youth employment

Apprenticeship budget to rise to £3.3bn amid savings scramble Allocation for 2026-27 will increase by 5.8% - but Treasury top-slice still hits £700m

Exclusive: The apprenticeships budget will rise to £3.3 billion in April, up from £3.1 billion.

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DWP caps new starts on defunded apprenticeships to stop recruitment rush Funding axe will also kick in immediately for providers with no recorded starts on affected standards in 2024-25 and 2025-26

APPRENTICECHIPS DEFUNDING LATEST:
Training providers are being put on notice - there will be recruitment caps on defunded apprenticeships to avoid a rush on starts

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New level 2 admin apprenticeship limited to under-25s It is the first time an apprenticeship has been given an age restriction outside of level 7 apprenticeships

2️⃣ Amongst all the news of apprenticeship cuts today, we learn the much-anticipated new level 2 administration standard will have an age limit

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'Ministers have made the call that there is no such thing as an apprentice manager'

From V Levels to defunded management apprenticeships, to multiple FE funding snubs - a week is a long time in FE and skills.

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Apprenticeships purge: Team leader and chartered manager among 16 axed standards Ministers also unveil the first 7 apprenticeship units

🚨 Breaking: 16 apprenticeships will be defunded, including team leader, chartered manager and operations manager, among others, collectively representing about 35,000 starts across over 600 training providers, colleges and universities

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Good evening! Coming up in this week’s FE Week:

💷 Principals react angrily to this week’s 16-19 funding snubs
✌️ Full roundup of V Levels, T Levels and BTEC defunding announcements
✍️ Jacqui Smith makes the quals case for the government, with reaction from @sixthformcolleges.bsky.social

New Green MP Hannah Spencer gives first speech in Parliament YouTube video by PoliticsJOE

“Four week ago today, I was at college. A plumber, learning how to plaster. Today, I’m in parliament as an MP … I truly believe anyone doing a job like mine should get a seat on these benches’l

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DfE agrees to BTECs defunding delay Funding for the level 3 courses will now continue into 2026-27 as ministers amend ‘aggressive’ approach

Overnight news:

Level 3 quals defunding pushed back to 2027 as V Levels are rolled out

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Good evening! Coming up in this week’s FE Week:

📰Our #ATC2026 news roundup: from funding rule debates to an AI confession
🏫The children’s commissioner weighs in on colleges mopping up system failures elsewhere
🚕MP’s attack ‘unconcerned’ DfE on post-16 SEND transport

Proud editor moment seeing @jessjanehill.bsky.social’s byline and her @feweek.bsky.social investigation mentioned on today’s iconic Sunday Times front page

Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’ The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords by Sir Keir Starmer

🚨 Breaking: Former NCG CEO Joe Docherty, now Lord Docherty, has been suspended as a Labour peer after it emerged he resigned from his college role after conducting sexual liaisons during working hours

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👀 Happy to have a piece featured in this week’s @feweek.bsky.social summarising our response @ascl-uk.bsky.social to the NEET crisis:

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Coming up in @feweek.bsky.social:

📢 Major SEND reforms - full report and reaction
⏱️As NEETs rise, a potentially very popular apprenticeship is still on ice
👩‍🏫 DfE are clamping down on FE teacher training
3️⃣ Ahead of more announcements, we get underneath DfE's '900 confusing qualifications' claims

A 🧵with some charts - showing you cannot understand youth labour markets without understanding the role of education participation in the lives of 16-24 year olds. There are nearly as many 22–24-year-olds who are NEET (375,000) as 18–21-year-olds (399,000), with 16–17-year-olds just 63,000.

‘Fundamentally wrong’: Greater Lincs approves ESOL cuts Plans to cut funding for English language lessons to avoid alleged “segregation” have been approved in Greater Lincolnshire, amid concerns harm to integration

Reform UK’s Andrea Jenkyns has become the first English mayor to defund English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses.

Ignoring the public consultation which opposed the move, plans were approved today and will kick in from 2027.

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DfE to fund maternity pay improvements in colleges Funding to match a pledge to double school staff maternity pay to come in 2027

Colleges are set to receive additional funding to improve maternity pay for their staff, the Department for Education has announced

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Is this a taste of Reform UK education policies?

Should the taxpayer pay for non-English speakers to learn the language of the country they live in?