Covid-19

Weekly Covid testing for most students and staff ditched from today

Boris Johnson outlines plan for ‘living with Covid-19’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
FE Week Podcast

The FE Week Podcast: The great pay divide

Are staff struggling to make ends meet? Are they on unstable contracts? In the first of a new investigative…

Jess Staufenberg
The FE Week Podcast
News

Make colleges ‘jointly responsible’ for local skills improvement plans, principals tell Zahawi

Leaders write to Zahawi calling for a strengthened role in the new policy

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Storm Eunice: Colleges close across south England

The Met Office warned of flying debris resulting in danger to life

Will Nott
Will Nott
Covid-19

DfE extends Covid school and college workforce fund until Easter

Staff fund extended until April 8

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Colleges

Stop, collaborate and listen

Leaders representing the four UK nations have their say on HE and FE collaboration

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


Funding, Skills reform

DfE publishes ESFA review but can’t confirm crucial post-16 responsibilities

The review of the ESFA has now been published in full.

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges

Winners of the AoC Student of the Year Awards 2022 revealed

Awards for the young student, adult student, higher education student and apprentice of the year are run by the…

Will Nott
Will Nott
News

AoC: Relax financial intervention rules to protect college reputations

A ‘significant minority’ of colleges face ‘real financial difficulty’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Prisoners to finally be offered apprenticeships

The scheme will initially be offered to up to a hundred prisoners across England before being rolled out across…

Will Nott
Will Nott
Levelling Up
Will Nott

Must read

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