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Worsening student data is positive sign for Burnley

…cashire college at the centre of a data manipulation scandal. Burnley College boasted it was “number one” in the country for achievement rates…

Anviksha Patel

2w | Colleges
News

UCU wins £19k from teacher it represented in court claim

… (UCU) last year following her dismissal from a teaching role at Burnley College in 2022. Employment tribunals rarely award costs. UCU’s legal…

Anviksha Patel

13 Feb 2026 | FE workforce
News

2025 review: A defining year for further education and skills

…merged. After months of mystery surrounding the disappearance of Burnley College’s principal, Karen Buchanan, Ofsted revealed the college had bee…

Shane Chowen

23 Dec 2025
News

Troubled Burnley College appoints new principal

…e helm and help mark the start of an “ambitious new chapter” for Burnley College. Inspectors revealed in July that Burnley College, which boas…

Anviksha Patel

2 Dec 2025 | Colleges
News

WorldSkills UK national finals: Welsh colleges top 2025 medal table

…nd College and Grwp Llandrillo Menai. With nine medal points, Burnley College and East Coast College came joint fifth with Coleg Cambria and N…

Anviksha Patel

28 Nov 2025 | WorldSkills UK
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WorldSkills UK: 2025 foundation skills medallists announced

…d Bronze: Tommaso Montagino, Harry Metcalfe, John Subala from Burnley College Brood, Burnley College Digital Gold: Jesse Owen, Bridg…

Anviksha Patel

28 Nov 2025 | WorldSkills UK
Feature

To pay or not to pay? The ‘divisive’ question of college governor remuneration

…(DfE), hammering home the importance of good governance. When Burnley College, which claimed to be “number one” in the country for 16-19 achie…

Jessica Hill

6 Oct 2025 | Colleges
News

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

… FEC team, was parachuted in to support the interim principal of Burnley College after Ofsted inspectors found the college had “misled” students …

Shane Chowen

7 Sep 2025 | Colleges
Profiles

Lisa O’Loughlin, principal and CEO

…nbsp;after being branded ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted last year, while Burnley College was downgraded to ‘requires improvement’ after being caught infl…

Jessica Hill

8 Sep 2025 | Colleges
News

Burnley College inflated achievement rates, Ofsted reveals

…oning “exceptionally high” achievement rates, after finding that Burnley college had submitted inaccurate individualised learner records (ILRs). …

Anviksha Patel

3 Jul 2025 | Colleges