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New year honours 2025: Who got what in FE and skills?

College leaders, governors and a leading apprenticeships researcher among 19 recognised

News

Manchester mayor builds support for MBacc

FE Week visits an Andy Burnham regional event to learn more about his plans to boost technical education

News, Devolution

New year honours 2023: Who got what in FE and skills?

A former president of the AoC has been made a dame alongside five CBEs, six OBEs and seven MBEs for FE and skills people in the 2023 new year honours

News

25 years on: What did the LSRN ever do for us?

As the Learning & Skills Research Network (LSRN) celebrates its silver jubilee, Andrew Morris sets out the challenges it has met – and those it now faces

Opinion, Research

Do you know the history of October’s Black History Month?

Understanding the origins of next month’s celebratory activity – and when it first arrived in your local area – can be deeply engaging for students, writes Ellisha Soanes Did you know that Black History Month originally started in America? The Association for the Study of African American Life was founded in 1915, 50 years after […]

Opinion

Focus feature: The realities of research in FE

Despite a lack of funds and interest from above, research in FE is being kept alive by grassroots groups of lecturers and dedicated academics. Jess Staufenberg meets the movers and shakers to find out if it’s enough “There is no, as far as I know, ‘WonkFE’,” Phillip Augar said, from inside a cosy wooden lodge, […]

Feature, News, Long read, Research

Profile: Jenna Wrathall Bailey

JL Dutaut meets a high-performance skills coach whose experience shines a light on the challenges facing the necessary education revolution What does it mean to prepare someone for the modern world of work? What does it take to retain skilled staff in an economy increasingly defined by transience? On many levels – whether it’s about […]

Profiles

T-levels: The providers selected to run courses in 2022

The names of a further 88 colleges, training providers and schools chosen to deliver T-levels in the third wave of their rollout have been announced today. They will teach the new post-16 technical qualifications from September 2022 in subjects including law, engineering and manufacturing, and legal, finance and accounting. A total of 18 T-levels will […]

News

First college to delay reopening after coronavirus R rate rise

A college in Tameside is delaying its wider reopening after being “strongly advised” to do so by its local authority in light of new Covid-19 infection rate data. Tameside College told FE Week today it is planning to follow recommendations from Tameside Metropolitan Borough to postpone face-to-face contact with more students until at least June […]

News