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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

Get on board and publish your minutes, FE Commissioner tells colleges

FE Week audit finds half of colleges have not published governor minutes this year

News, Colleges

Jeremy Kerswell, Plumpton College principal and Landex chair

As head of a land-based college that has doubled in size, Jeremy Kerswell is attracting students from outside rural communities And yet, Jeremy Kerswell is surprisingly reluctant to be photographed in his wellies. He fears that doing so might evoke a farming stereotype that is “the antithesis” of the image he wants for his land-based […]

Profiles, land-based colleges, Long read

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 493

Lucy Auchincloss Director of Operations, Remit Training Start date: March 2025 Previous Job: Partnership Development Director, Lifetime Interesting fact: Lucy’s greatest passion is music and especially Paul McCartney and The Rolling Stones, both of whom she’s seen live multiple times across 3 continents Jeremy Kerswell Chair, Landex Start date: March 2025 Concurrent Job: Principal & […]

Movers and Shakers

#GE2024: Listen now as Let’s Go Further outlines the FE and skills priorities facing our new government

The Skills and Education Group podcast, Let’s Go Further, aims to challenge the way we all think about skills and education. Series 4, a collaboration with FE Week, focuses on the FE and skills policy issues facing a new government.

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Inside the college sector with an educational, societal and cultural mission

Their idyllic rural settings, historic buildings and strong links with local communities have enabled land-based colleges to diversify their income streams in innovative ways to survive. Jessica Hill investigates what the future holds for England’s land-based college sector. Land-based education sits at the forefront of the biggest crises facing our world, from food scarcity to […]

Feature, News, land-based colleges, Long read

Edition 148: Movers and Shakers

Bosses at Lincolnshire’s New College Stamford will be hoping for a period of stability after appointing their fourth principal in just over year. Janet Meenaghan has taken the helm, replacing interim principal John Allen. It comes after Mr Allen’s predecessor, April Carrol, was initially put on extended leave in March having been hit with two votes of no confidence […]

Movers and Shakers