News Marsden in a fight to survive as an MP One of the most prominent and long-standing further education representatives in the House of Commons is battling to save… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Exclusive Providers win CoF challenges every time Every provider that challenged the government on English and maths condition of funding penalties over the past three years… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y 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 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y 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 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y 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 6y Nick Linford 6y 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 6y Billy Camden 6y 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 6y Billy Camden 6y 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 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y 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 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y 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 6y Billy Camden 6y 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 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y 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 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y Newer 1 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 819 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 2w Jessica Hill 2w 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo