Colleges Tributes paid to principal’s thirty-year legacy after sudden death Cirencester College mourns death of ‘beloved backbone of the community’ Jim Grant Anviksha Patel 2y Anviksha Patel 2y Training Providers Exclusive Babington CEO steps down Boss of huge training provider leaves due to ‘personal reasons’ Billy Camden 2y Billy Camden 2y Sponsored post Sponsored Seismic changes to post-16 qualifications landscape Post-16 level 3 vocational qualifications in England are currently undergoing major reform. The post-16 education landscape from September 2025… OCR 2y OCR 2y Colleges, sixth forms Sixth form college delays closure after backlash from parents, union and MP Plans to close this academic year have been pushed back to July 2024 after leaders admit they ‘got it… Jason Noble 2y Jason Noble 2y Training Providers Exclusive Rail provider terminated amid combined authority funding dispute GNR Training and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority in dispute over contract payments Jason Noble 2y Jason Noble 2y Apprenticeships, Long read Investigation 1 in 10 established apprenticeships fail to recruit a single apprentice Employers speak out about “risk averse” training providers and “complex processes” preventing apprenticeship recruitment Shane Chowen 2y Shane Chowen 2y WorldSkills UK team for EuroSkills 2023 finals announced The UK’s young skills champions will head to Gdańsk, Poland, to compete later this year Jason Noble 2y Jason Noble 2y News People pay billions more for training than employers and government, research claims Time to Learn report proposes fresh action to encourage learning Jason Noble 2y Jason Noble 2y News AoC doubles down on refusal to make college pay proposal Unions left ‘deeply disappointed’ as association passes the buck to government amid 15.4% staff pay rise demand Jason Noble 2y Jason Noble 2y Colleges Land-for-homes sale ‘essential’ to keep college from closing Insolvency warning if £45m redevelopment falls through Billy Camden 2y Billy Camden 2y Colleges First FE Commissioner intervention report published in over a year Troubled adult residential college praised for efforts to tackle safety concerns Billy Camden 2y Billy Camden 2y Colleges, Cost of living, Funding MP urges struggling college to hit the brakes on campus closure ‘Underutilised’ site to shut to save on costs Billy Camden 2y Billy Camden 2y Newer 1 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 816 Older 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 3w Jessica Hill 3w Long read, Prison education Long read 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
