News

AoC Student of the Year Award winners announced

A learner with hearing and speech difficulties who also works as a carer for his twin sister is among…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

Kendal College tops FE Week’s 2019 league table

Kendal College has been announced as the top college in FE Week’s annual league table for 2019. This year’s…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Feature, News

The future of colleges: Can edtech deliver its utopia?

Technology has transformed further education. But at what cost, asks JL Dutaut. The history of edtech is after all…

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut
News

AELP fear funding agency considering outright subcontracting ban

The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has today recommended a new, more “robust approach” to subcontracting in…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Labour will create 320,000 green apprenticeships, Corbyn to tell CBI conference

A Labour government would train 80,000 people a year in a new climate apprenticeship programme, Jeremy Corbyn is expected…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

College with ‘failed’ Grenfell-style cladding to remain open for 16 to 18-year-old residents despite Bolton fire

This evening the Department for Education (DfE) has said there remains “no immediate safety concerns” at a college halls…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


News

Punishing strikes at Nottingham College officially end

A bitter dispute that involved extensive strikes at Nottingham College has officially ended after a deal was reached which…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofsted watch: Healthcare providers criticised in ‘outstanding’ week for colleges

Two healthcare providers have been told to get in shape while one college was found to be ‘outstanding’ by…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Why colleges are choosing GCSE resits over alternatives

Colleges across the country have been entering more students for GCSE maths and English re-sits than government policy requires….

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

Small business fury over Hadlow administration

“The b***ards” was the reaction of one of many small businesses owed thousands of pounds by the first college…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

College to spend £250k paying off learner loans after subcontracting scandal

A college will pay off almost £250,000 in loans debt for 59 victims of a subcontracting scandal. FE Week…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

Ofsted: Campus grades on the cards for 2020

A move to campus-level Ofsted grades for college groups is back on the cards and they could be introduced…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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

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

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

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