News

Warning as cyber criminals try to cash in on exam season

The Joint Council for Qualifications warned exams officers about the email earlier this week. The body said a ‘small…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
T Levels

No T Level achievement rates until wave 3 students complete

But national-level results for T Levels will be published from the get-go, with the first set of outcomes set…

Will Nott
Will Nott
News

New alliance to offer fellowships for FE staff

Colleges will have to be a member of both organisations and have ‘chartered status’ for staff to be eligible.

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Sponsored post

OCN London joins forces with the Met Police to help widen participation in the police service

OCN London, a nationally recognised awarding organisation and Access Validation Agency (AVA), has developed a new Access to HE…

OCN London
OCN London
News

DfE seeks brokers to level up SME apprenticeships in the north

Intermediaries told to also focus on boosting numbers of young apprentices

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Apprenticeship funding at risk for slow progress drop-outs

But providers are up in arms about the bureaucracy of the ‘impractical’ new rule

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


News

ESFA appoints David Withey as next permanent chief executive

He replaces Eileen Milner who resigned last year

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

ESFA finally launches Tripadvisor-style feedback feature for apprentices

Apprentices can now give anonymous feedback and the results will appear on Find Apprenticeship Training

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Industrial action

Union targets college’s open days for strikes as ‘fire and rehire’ row escalates

Staff at Richmond upon Thames College have warned they will strike during open days as a bitter dispute over…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Industrial action

College strike called off after staff win pay rise of up to 7.5%

It comes weeks after the AoC recommended that college staff should be given a 2.25% pay rise next year

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

ONS reclassification review: Colleges given weeks to submit borrowing and other financial data

The Education and Skills Funding Agency today asked colleges for ‘immediate assistance’ to provide a debt return

Will Nott
Will Nott
News

Queen’s Birthday Honours 2022: Who received what in FE?

Picking up the damehood was Ann Limb, who has over 25 years of experience in FE and was appointed…

Will Nott
Will Nott

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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
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