Colleges, Industrial action

Strikewatch: The colleges with staff on the picket line in 2023

Union members’ fight for fair pay continues

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Colleges, Pay

Colleges with the biggest pay gap between principals and staff revealed

Colleges defend ‘high’ gap between FE principal and staff salaries. Unions say it cannot continue

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Apprenticeships, Ofsted, Training Providers

Justice: Provider overturns published grade 4 Ofsted report after ‘arduous’ battle

Extraordinary saga ends in grade 2 for apprenticeship firm

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
AEB, Training Providers

Fast-growing adult education provider suddenly closes

Clawback for ‘associate agreements’ and failed legal challenge for AEB bid contribute to collapse

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Training Providers

Director ban for bogus apprenticeships firm chief

A seven year director disqualification has been served on the boss of apprenticeships provider London College of Global Education…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships

Logistics assessment body acquired by VTCT

VTCT has bolstered its EPA operation by acquiring Skills for Logistics

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein


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Join the educational extravaganza: Festival of Education returns

The final countdown has commenced for the 13th Festival of Education, with keynotes from Eddie Izzard, Amanda Spielman, Paul…

Shane Mann
Festival of Education
Apprenticeships, Assessment

Apprentices to take ‘integrated’ EPA and mandatory qual assessment

New guidance on mandatory qualifications could see fewer apprentices drop out early

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges

Revealed: 42 colleges and schools share £140m capacity cash ahead of demographic spike

Additional 260,000 students aged 16 to 19 expected to participate in education in the coming years

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Higher education, Skills reform

Funding rate boost for next round of higher technical skills injection fund

Up to £48.8m is on offer over the next two years

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Higher education

UCAS chief executive Marches on

Clare Marchant will leave the organisation to lead the University of Gloucestershire

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
SEND

Revealed: The 21 experts to oversee roll-out of SEND reforms

Board members tasked with holding government to account for ‘timely development and improvement’ of SEND system

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker

Must read

Colleges, Long read

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…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release

‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, FE Commissioner

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

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

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal

Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
T Levels

NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure

Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel