News

12 months of FE Week: October

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Today…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

12 months of FE Week: September

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Here’s…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News
honours

Queen’s New Year honours 2020: Who got what in FE and skills?

A former specialist college principal has been made a dame while a well-known champion of adult education has been…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

12 months of FE Week: August

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Today…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

12 months of FE Week: July

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Here’s…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

12 months of FE Week: June

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Here’s…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

12 months of FE Week: May

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Today…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

12 months of FE Week: April

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Here’s…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

12 months of FE Week: March

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Today…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

12 months of FE Week: February

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Today…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofsted watch: An uncomfortable week for many providers

Three independent learning providers received a grade three from Ofsted, in a mixed week for FE providers. One independent…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News
leader
Exclusive

Hull college boss quits despite chair telling staff investigation found ‘no impropriety’

The chief executive at a college under investigation for nepotism and ‘financial wrongdoing’ is leaving, FE Week can reveal….

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu

Must read

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
Jessica Hill
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
Jessica Hill
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
Billy Camden
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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel