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15 April 2026

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Breaking News

City & Guilds members vote in favour of independent inquiry

1h | Awarding

Colleges face funding squeeze as DfE rations student growth cash again

2h | Colleges

‘Experts at hand’ cash must not plug ‘existing gaps’, councils told

5h | Inclusion

‘Stepping-stone’ GCSEs risk halting social mobility progress, SMC report warns

5h | Colleges

Team UK for WorldSkills Shanghai revealed

1d | WorldSkills

Revealed: The next 19 ‘technical excellence colleges’

1d | Colleges

Unions start the clock on binding college pay reform

2d | FE workforce

Long Read

‘The absolute friend is the truth’: inside Byron Nicolaides’ reckoning over City & Guilds

2d | Awarding
Latest Opinion
Baroness Ann Limb

The cost of leadership

Baroness Ann Limb

| Opinion
Gemma Marsh

Skills England’s new expert network will cut red tape, not corners

Gemma Marsh

| Skills reform
Ruth Sparkes

Teenagers aren’t googling your organisation, they’re asking AI

Ruth Sparkes

| Young people
Diana Sutton

This ESOL review is a rare chance – let’s not waste it

Diana Sutton

| Skills reform
Kim Laughton

Access to HE can play a key role in driving social mobility

Kim Laughton

| Higher education
Features

Long Read

‘The absolute friend is the truth’: inside Byron Nicolaides’ reckoning over City & Guilds

2d | Awarding

Investigation

Missing teenagers suggests a worthless guarantee

2w | Young people

Profile

Topping the Bill

2w | Colleges

Investigation

How one FE college is turning the tide on NEETs

3w | Long read

Profile

Kerry Boffey, chief executive of the Fellowship of Inspection Nominees

16 Mar 2026 | Long read

Profile

FAB Tim’s Cheeky past
9 Mar 2026 | Awarding

Profile

New FE Commissioner Ellen Thinnesen heralds a new dawn for oversight
16 Feb 2026 | Colleges

Investigation

Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail
9 Feb 2026 | Colleges

Profile

Kim Leadbeater MP
2 Feb 2026 | Politics

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