Colleges

Long-awaited three-college Hampshire merger gets over the line

Future of City College Southampton secured as it joins Fareham and Eastleigh College

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Long read

Janet Smith, chief executive and principal of Nottingham College

Janet Smith leads one of the UK’s largest colleges, which after decades of storms is now moving into calmer...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges

Activate Learning and Lincoln College Group drop merger plans

'I think what we felt with where we are at the moment, given those [previous] mergers, our group services...

Will Nott
Will Nott
News

Mystery surrounds second delay to Havering College merger plans

A cash-strapped college’s future has been thrown into doubt after a merger it was depending on to sort out...

Jessica Fino
Jessica Fino
News

University takeover of struggling college delayed, again

A cash-strapped London college’s on-off planned merger with a university has been delayed yet again. Lambeth College is now...

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

College that needed huge bailouts set to merge

A college that has received millions of pounds in government bailouts has announced plans to merge. Accrington and Rossendale...

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Merger bulletin: the colleges in need of a partner

The area reviews of post-16 education and training ended last March. They were designed to establish “fewer, often larger,...

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Bolton pilots new college-university merger model

A college is joining a university using an “innovative” new merger model that’s acting as a pilot for future...

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Grenfell community rage over college sell-off

Leaders of a college that sold its main campus to make way for housing ahead of a planned merger...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford