News

Universities and colleges announced for new £2m short HE course trial

Only one college has been chosen for the new Higher Education Short Course trial

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Revealed: The winners in the £120m Institutes of Technology wave 2 competition

The names of the next nine colleges and universities to develop new Institutes of Technology have been named. The…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

DfE launches £150m capital fund for wave four T Level providers

Colleges and training providers in the fourth wave of the T Level rollout are being invited to bid for…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

DfE top boss handed £278k payout to leave after exams fiasco

Jonathan Slater had just eight months left in post, but was pushed out in spate of perm sec departures

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

DfE looks to ex-teachers to fill Covid staffing gaps

Leaders also asked to ‘use their own networks to encourage sign-up’

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Just 195 of 5.7m teacher grades changed after exam board reviews

And for the almost 1m VTQ TAGs, just 636 were changed

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Covid-19

Education recovery in FE: Ofsted reveals key findings from autumn 2021 inspections

Providers’ finances have suffered, apprentices have been unable to take exams and staff are facing ever-increasing workloads

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

AoC recommends ‘kick in the teeth’ 1% college staff pay rise – again

Unions say staff will ‘rightly be furious at this offensive’ offer

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

DfE extends Covid workforce fund until Feb half-term

The scheme was reintroduced last month amid rising rates

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Covid-19, T Levels

Covid delays Ofsted’s T Level research

Yet another delay to Ofsted and T Levels

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Colleges, Covid-19

Land-based college handed finance warning as commercial income takes £1m hit

The college received a visit from the FE Commissioner after its financial health dropped to ‘inadequate’

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Colleges

Good for Me, Good for FE on track to reach £1m volunteering target

Colleges have been running community kitchens, foodbank drives and festive activities to generate social value

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon

Must read

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
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