News Labour’s new shadow minister says she’ll ‘fight’ for FE Emma Hardy is to be Labour’s new shadow FE and HE minister, with a pledge to continue “fighting” government… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive UK to take first steps towards hosting WorldSkills The UK is to take its first steps towards hosting the international WorldSkills competition by gauging interest from the… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News City & Guilds CEO to step down The chief executive of education giant City & Guilds is stepping down. Chris Jones will leave on 31 January,… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News FE lecturers have lowest levels of wellbeing among educators, new analysis suggests Lecturers in FE have the lowest levels of positive wellbeing and “stand out” as having high levels of anxiety… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Angela Rayner to run for Labour deputy leadership The shadow education secretary Angela Rayner will run to be Labour’s deputy leader, she will announce today. The Ashton-under-Lyne… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Break-up of first college in administration begins Hadlow College has begun transferring campuses to other providers after it became the first to enter education administration last… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Highest-paid college principal retires with immediate effect The highest-paid principal in the country, who led a college which is under investigation after it found an unexplained… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Ofsted watch: Premier League and national laboratory providers score well over festive period A provider to the Premier League has scored well while a national laboratory training firm has done even better… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Over £1bn already wasted on ‘fake apprenticeships’, claims former adviser to skills ministers Around £1.2 billion has been “wasted” on “fake apprenticeships” that have taken up half of all starts since the… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Businesses welcome ‘manageable’ 6.4% apprentice minimum wage increase The prime minister’s inflation-busting apprentice minimum wage increase is “manageable” and will not impede businesses from taking on new… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Adult learning ‘real cause for concern’ as participation hits record low Adult participation in education has fallen to record low with almost four million ‘lost learners’ since 2010, according to… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News 12 months of FE Week: December For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Last… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Newer 1 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 821 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo 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 4mo Billy Camden 4mo Colleges 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo
