News

Ofqual delays decision on solution for apprentices stuck in limbo

A decision on whether apprentices can receive teacher-assessed grades for their English and maths if they are unable to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

College’s £240k rugby stadium naming deal investigated

The new interim chief executive at Hull College Group has launched an investigation after FE Week revealed the organisation…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

White paper Q&A with skills minister: ‘We have got an awful lot to do and an awful lot to prove’

The lack of a long-term funding settlement for FE did not hamper the Department for Education’s white paper in…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

‘Compressed’ exams and early results day: Post-qualification admissions proposals revealed

Exam dates could be brought forward or ‘compressed’ to allow for extra time to process university applications under new…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

DfE finally publishes ‘interim’ response to Augar Review

The Department for Education has finally published its initial response to Philip Augar’s review of Post-18 Education and Funding,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Next phase of £1.5bn college capital funding programme launched

Colleges have been told how they can now apply for the next phase of the government’s £1.5 billion capital…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon


Skills reform

FE white paper sets out ‘ambitious’ reforms

“New powers” for the education secretary to intervene in colleges and plans for funding reform have been revealed today…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Hull College Group to close down Goole campus

A troubled college group is set to lose another one of its campuses at the end of this academic…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Traineeships tender results revealed

Bidders to the government’s traineeships tender are now being informed of their outcomes following a slight delay. In decision…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

‘The benefit-risk balance is unclear’: Government pauses daily Covid contact testing in colleges

The rollout of daily Covid contact testing in schools and colleges has been paused amid fears over higher rates…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Henley campus for sale after Coventry College breaches loan conditions

A college is selling one of its only two campuses to repay debt after being warned it could “face…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Ofqual raises concerns over DfE reforms to BTECs and other level 3 qualifications

Government plans to remove funding for thousands of courses, such as BTECs, that compete with T Levels and A-levels…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

16-19

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
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