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2025 review: A defining year for further education and skills

FE Week editor Shane Chowen looks back at a year of reform, rhetoric and reckoning for further education

News

College ‘auto-enrols’ students on voting register

The scheme hopes to improve low turnouts of young voters

News, Colleges, Students

T Level courses canned as low GCSE grades bite

Tens of thousands more students than normal entered FE this year without a pass in English and maths

News

The college breakfast programme tackling hunger and poverty

A Manchester project is showing colleges are a vital resource to connect students and families to entitlements they don’t know they’re eligible for, explains James Scott

Opinion, Poverty

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 327

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Sue Sturgeon, Chair, Activate Learning Start date: August 2020 Previous job: Managing director, Guildford Borough Council Interesting fact: She enjoys motorbike adventure touring on the back of her partner’s BMW Ian Wiggans, Operations director, Skillnet Limited Start date: August 2020 Previous job: Operations and programme director, […]

Bulletin, Movers and Shakers

Coronavirus delays troubled college’s merger until autumn

A cash-strapped college’s merger plans have been delayed owing to the coronavirus pandemic. Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College, which was told by FE Commissioner Richard Atkins last year that it could not survive as a standalone due to its “terminal” finances, had scheduled to join the Trafford College Group by August. A consultation on […]

News

Free meals: are vouchers what colleges need to cater for the vulnerable?

In the absence of the government’s promised universal voucher system, colleges and ITPs have already taken matters into their own hands, finds JL Dutaut Campaigning from school leaders last week resulted in DfE announcements promising a relaxation of rules for the disbursement of free meals funds and the creation of a universal voucher system. However, […]

Feature, News

Movers and Shakers: Edition 251

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving Karen Redhead, principal and chief executive, Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College Start date: Autumn 2018 Previous job: principal and chief executive, Derwentside College Interesting fact: Karen is a keen horse rider, but now restricts herself to helping to judge at dressage competitions Julie Nerney, chair, […]

Movers and Shakers

Live updates: A level results day

As learners up and down the country find out what their next in life will be, we’ll be keeping you updated on some of the success stories from colleges, sixth form colleges and providers up and down the country. *** The live blog is now closed. Sorry if your pictures didn’t make it in – […]

Bulletin, News