News Revealed: Top 10 highest paid college leaders in 2019/20 The highest paid college principals and chief executives in 2019/20 have been revealed by the Education and Skills Funding… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News HE admissions service to ‘act as a digital Baker Clause’ UCAS has pledged to act as a “digital Baker Clause” and reform its service to be “as strong for… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Prison education: 5 things we learned from today’s education committee hearing The Commons’ education select committee heard from expert witnesses and two sector leaders today as part of its ongoing… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y Ofsted Ofsted finds apprentices without jobs at provider Ofsted has chastised an online training provider after finding cases where, “in contrast to the records held”, apprentices did… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive College suspends principal just two months before merger A college being forced into a merger after an audit revealed a £5.35 million over-claim has now suspended its… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Exclusive For sale! Land of insolvent college goes on the market for £580K England’s first college to be put through the government’s insolvency regime is selling off a huge parcel of land,… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y Ofsted Exclusive Provider challenges Ofsted for ‘factually incorrect’ report A care worker apprenticeship provider is challenging a damaging Ofsted report and accused inspectors of lacking the knowledge to… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y Apprenticeships Exclusive ESFA to select providers for reapplication to apprenticeships register in random order Providers on the apprenticeships register will be “randomly selected” to reapply in different phases over the next year, the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive National college closes without ever having opened One of the government’s once-vaunted national colleges is being wound up – without ever opening, FE Week can reveal…. Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Exclusive Skills Bill: DfE accused of ‘power-grab’ over colleges The much-heralded Skills Bill contains a Department for Education “power-grab” and will “fail to meet the scale of the… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News £250m of apprenticeship funding went back to Treasury in 2020-21 Apprenticeship funding to the tune of £250 million was handed back to the Treasury in 2020-21, FE Week can… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Apprenticeships Exclusive ‘Middle-class grab’ on apprenticeships confirmed by new analysis The apprenticeship reforms are increasingly disadvantaging people from low-income areas, new FE Week analysis has revealed. Since the new-style… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 854 Older Must read Awarding Earpiece exam cheat ring jailed over construction test fraud Men trained candidates to hide devices and exploit access arrangements to pass mandatory safety tests Josh Mellor 3d Josh Mellor 3d Adult education, Apprenticeships, Skills reform Apprenticeships purge: Team leader and chartered manager among 16 axed standards Ministers also unveil the first 7 apprenticeship units Shane Chowen 3w Shane Chowen 3w Colleges, Politics Exclusive Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’ The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords… Jessica Hill 1mo Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund 1mo Next 3 stories Colleges, Long read Investigation Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,… Jessica Hill 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo Colleges, Long read Exclusive Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety Shane Chowen 4mo Shane Chowen 4mo Young people 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 5mo Anviksha Patel 5mo