Colleges, Industrial action

Hopwood Hall College staff win another significant pay rise

Most lecturers to receive 9.2% increase, on top of last year’s 7.5% rise

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Ofsted, Training Providers

Ofsted plans ‘shadow nominee’ for training providers during inspections

Inspectorate says it wants to ‘ease the burden’ currently placed on one person’s shoulders and ‘help the sector with…

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
News

Temporary apprenticeship funding band uplifts planned for later this month, DfE reveals

Providers will need to ‘present conclusive evidence that costs of delivery have been substantially impacted’

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
News

Former skills minister Matt Hancock set to join I’m A Celebrity…

He was suspended from the Conservative Party after the news emerged today

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Politics

Two former schools ministers to run for education committee chair

Robin Walker and Jonathan Gullis throw their hats in the ring to succeed Robert Halfon

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Cost of living

Cost of living: 8 in 10 providers warn of soaring salary and facility costs

Survey outlines stark picture trainers are facing amid the economic gloom

Jason Noble
Jason Noble


News

School and college system minister Baroness Barran stays on

The appointment seems to complete the new Department for Education ministerial line-up

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Claire Coutinho appointed education minister 

The former investment banker joins Nick Gibb and Rob Halfon who are set to be named schools minister and…

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

A ‘British Baccalaureate’? What you need to know

New PM Rishi Sunak wants to reform post-16 education, but there are two big hurdles: time and the returning…

John Dickens
John Dickens
Politics

Robert Halfon and Nick Gibb return as education ministers

It comes as PM Rishi Sunak is reportedly planning education reforms including a new ‘British baccalaureate’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Colleges and providers ‘don’t really know’ if tutoring is working, Ofsted finds

Watchdog also found some sessions put on simply for students to do coursework assignments or exam revision

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

King Charles laments lack of vocational education and ‘abandoned’ apprenticeships

The King says apprenticeships are ‘vital’ in one-off-episode of The Repair Shop

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor

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