News Who’s vulnerable: will FE’s past and present MPs survive the election? As we enter the final stretch of the 2019 general election, FE Week has run through all the education… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News ETF wants to tell the stories of disabled learners ‘living their best lives’ The Education and Training Foundation is on the lookout for stories of learners with learning difficulties or disabilities (LLDD)… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Exclusive Investigators probe dozens of gagging orders as former Hull College staff left ‘devastated’ The HR director at Hull College Group has been placed on a leave of absence after an ongoing independent… Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News Exclusive Pledge to ‘reverse privatisation’ in FE clarified by shadow minister Labour will not prevent independent providers from accessing public funding if the party wins next week’s general election, even… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Labour leads FE Week readers’ poll More FE professionals will be backing Labour than the Conservatives at next week’s general election, exclusive FE Week polling… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News IFS warns FE funding pledges may lead to fraud and poor value for money The “extremely large” rises in adult education spending proposed by Labour and the Liberal Democrats open up “genuine risks”… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Lecturers strike at London college despite agreeing pay deal last year Strikes started today at a large London college just a year and a half after staff agreed a pay… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Interim principal joins Highbury College following DfE intervention A college embroiled in an expenses scandal has appointed an experienced FE leader as its interim principal. Penny Wycherley… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Feature, News Forces for good: ex-military impress as trainee lecturers Successive governments are not giving up on the idea of getting former military personnel into classrooms, but could FE… Jess Staufenberg 5y Jess Staufenberg 5y News Hadlow College sells Betteshanger Park for undisclosed sum The first college to enter education administration has taken an “important step forward” after it sold its country and… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Ofsted finds ‘many’ employers did not know staff were apprentices “Many” employers working with a new independent provider for the care sector did not know their staff were on… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Exclusive UTCs back in the market – but there’s a catch The first applications in five years have been lodged for new university technical colleges, FE Week can reveal –… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y Newer 1 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 805 Older Must read Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 14h Billy Camden 14h Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive 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 1w Anviksha Patel 1w 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 4w Anviksha Patel 4w Next 3 stories T Levels NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 1mo Josh Mellor 1mo Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps Exclusive Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden and Frances Read 2mo
