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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
Fraser Whieldon
News

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
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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
Fraser Whieldon
News

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
Nick Linford
News

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
Billy Camden


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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
Billy Camden
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
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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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
Fraser Whieldon
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
Billy Camden
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
Jess Staufenberg
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
Fraser Whieldon

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As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica…

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Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is…

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Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal

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