Youth

NEET trailblazer schemes given £45m extension

Local ‘youth guarantee’ pilots will be funded for an extra year

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
English and maths, Results 2025

GCSE resits 2025: English and maths pass rates stable amid entries surge

But males overtake females in maths as colleges brace for even more resit students in English

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

‘Less ambitious’ nursing apprenticeships pledge criticised

New target comes ahead of a ‘refreshed’ NHS workforce plan later this year

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships, Colleges, Ofsted

College-run ITP awarded its own ‘outstanding’ 

The feat means all parts of a West Mids college group now hold Ofsted’s top grade

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Migrant skills tax take tumbled by £100m last year

Income from the immigration skills charge fell for the first time in four years amid calls for transparency over…

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

College taken to High Court over £6.6m row with developers

A college director allegedly said he would ‘run around Wandsworth Park naked’ if the deal didn’t go through

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen


Ofsted, Training Providers

Training provider to close after 40 years following damning Ofsted report

Managing director blasts ‘unfair’ inspection which found ‘ineffective’ safeguarding

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Politics

Saqib Bhatti appointed as Conservative shadow education minister

New shadow minister takes aim at level 7 apprenticeship cuts and tax rises on FE providers

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Results 2025, T Levels

VTQ and T Level results 2025: 7 key trends

From industry placements to gender gaps – today’s VTQ and T Level results explained

Shane Chowen
Anviksha Patel and Shane Chowen
Results 2025

A-level results 2025: Top grades rise slightly again this year

Ofqual says results rise could be because this year’s cohort made ‘better post-16 choices’

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Results 2025

A-level results 2025: 8 key trends in England’s data

Your handy FE Week round up of the key trends in this year’s A-level results

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Results 2025, T Levels

T Level results 2025: Pass rate up and dropouts down

Proportion receiving top grades stays static

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

16-19

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE

A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Long read

Colleges on the frontline of a divided nation

As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill