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Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail

More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised, under-funded and potentially under pressure to get back to mainstream school classrooms

Feature, News, Colleges, Long read

Degree apprenticeships less accessible to disadvantaged young people than Russell Group unis

Research reignites warnings that the route risks becoming ‘another middle-class preserve’

News, Apprenticeships

Don’t return to ‘punitive’ intervention, colleges tell new FE Commissioner

Reformed Ofsted inspections, college staff shortages and a new post-16 strategy face the new FE Commissioner Ellen Thinnesen

News, Colleges

‘Inadequate’ Furness College chooses merger partner

Announcement follows an FE Commissioner structure and prospects appraisal

News, Colleges

Alun Francis, chair of the Social Mobility Commission

Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is delivering it with a ‘Multiversity’ built in Britain’s most famous seaside town Alun Francis is practising what he preaches as chair of the government’s Social Mobility Commission at the Blackpool college he runs. In a town […]

News, Profiles, Colleges, Long read

Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal

Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe

News, Colleges

Ofsted names new ‘external reference group’ members

Groups will offer ‘independent advice and challenge’ as watchdog embarks on wide-ranging reforms, but FE and skills representation is lacking

News, Ofsted

College principal confirmed as permanent Social Mobility Commission chair

Alun Francis has been interim chair since Katharine Birbalsingh resigned in January

News, social mobility

1 in 3 colleges challenge TEF rating

Teaching excellence framework results revealed for first time since 2019

News, Colleges