Colleges, Pay AoC delays pay recommendation until September Colleges need summer to work new £160m funding into budgets, David Hughes says Anviksha Patel 5mo Anviksha Patel 5mo Skills bootcamps Northcoders bags full stack of top grades in first inspection The company’s CEO says the grade is a ‘clear validation’ of the standards staff strive for Josh Mellor 5mo Josh Mellor 5mo Ofsted Ofsted pledges specialist inspectors for most visits from November All FE inspections will also be led by either current or recent HMIs, says the watchdog Anviksha Patel 5mo Anviksha Patel 5mo Higher education Think tank calls for FE-style franchising crackdown in HE Planned DfE reforms to franchising amount to ‘regulatory negligence’, says The Post-18 Project Shane Chowen 5mo Shane Chowen 5mo Skills reform FE inquiry: MPs grill Smith on pay, cuts and careers Parity of teacher pay is a ‘fairly basic problem’, the education committee chair suggested Josh Mellor 5mo Josh Mellor 5mo Ofsted Ofsted: Unions consider asking leaders to quit as inspectors Leadership unions warn they will take the ‘unprecedented step’ unless watchdog changes course over inspection plans FE Week Reporter 5mo FE Week Reporter 5mo Apprenticeships Long read Banter, firework emails and power ‘grab’ defended by ex-SFA chief in Marples trial Sir Peter Lauener was cross-examined for 2 days. Here’s what we learned… Billy Camden 5mo Billy Camden and Charlie Moloney 5mo Skills reform Industrial strategy: growth and skills levy courses start next year Other new measures include ‘defence technical excellence colleges’ Josh Mellor 5mo Josh Mellor 5mo T Levels £6.3m available for T Level placement incentive fund for employers DfE confirms funding for health and construction employers, including SMEs Anviksha Patel 5mo Anviksha Patel 5mo Adult education, Long read Inside the evergreen sanctuary of Fircroft adult residential college Inspired by Denmark’s folk high schools, Birmingham’s Fircroft College still provides a home-from-home for people with addiction and mental… Jessica Hill 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo Colleges WCG sells contentious campus after High Court win The proceeds will be used to pay off debts from an ongoing government funding audit Josh Mellor 5mo Josh Mellor 5mo Colleges DfE appoints three new FE national leaders Principals of ‘outstanding’ colleges have been enlisted to help other colleges improve FE Week Reporter 5mo FE Week Reporter 5mo Newer 1 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 835 Older Must read 16-19 Long read 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 3w Anviksha Patel 3w 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 4w Shane Chowen 4w Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 1mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 1mo Next 3 stories Qualifications Exclusive 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 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Colleges, Long read 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo
