News New Boris adviser would ‘take a flamethrower’ to adult education policy Professor Alison Wolf is now working three days a week advising Number 10 on FE policy ahead of the… Nick Linford 5y Nick Linford 5y News Exclusive London’s mega-college to be hit with a grade three A large London college group wrestling with an unexpected £10 million deficit is set to receive a grade three… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 5y News Exclusive Provider advertises £30k reward in return for their ‘achieved learners’ A training provider is offering a reward of just under £30,000 for simply adding their data on achieved learners… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Inspectorate apologises to college principal after reversing grade four Ofsted has apologised and overturned a provisional ‘inadequate’ judgement after a college complained when inspectors alleged that student safety… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Lord Agnew to leave the DfE Lord Agnew is to leave the Department for Education, FE Week’s sister paper FE Week understands. The junior academies… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Crisis hit HS2 college hires lawyers to gag Ofsted The crisis hit National College for HS2 has hired a team of lawyers to stop Ofsted publishing a highly… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Exclusive Donelan promoted to universities minister and says FE to be decided tomorrow Michelle Donelan has been appointed as the new universities minister – and has not ruled out also taking on… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Gavin Williamson keeps education secretary role Gavin Williamson is to stay on as education secretary following a post-Brexit ministerial reshuffle. However, it’s not known whether… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Northern Powerhouse Partnership director tells education ministers they’ve ‘run out of time’ The director of George Osborne’s Northern Powerhouse Partnership has called for skills policy to be fully devolved from Whitehall,… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Williamson announces plan to scrap 5,000 qualifications – but will anybody notice? A consultation on plans to remove funding for more than 5,000 legacy qualifications at level three and below has… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y News Ministerial ‘gap’ at the DfE needs to be resolved soon, says Tory MP A Conservative MP has called for the “gap” at the Department of Education for a dedicated apprenticeships and skills… Fraser Whieldon 5y Fraser Whieldon 5y News Ofsted grade 3 forces mega-college to appeal not to be kicked off the T-levels roll-out A college is bidding to stay on the T-level programme and prevent another cold spot from opening up after… Billy Camden 5y Billy Camden 5y Newer 1 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 818 Older Must read 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 5d Jessica Hill 5d 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo Long read, Prison education Long read 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo Next 3 stories 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 3mo Billy Camden 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
