News Ofsted reveal new inspection report – all 13 of them Ofsted has this morning published the first provider reports under the new Education Inspection Framework (EIF), all 13 of… Nick Linford 6y Nick Linford 6y News Exclusive Were college’s students told cladding on halls of residence ‘failed’ a fire safety test? The cladding at a college’s halls of residence for students under the age of 18, the type used on… Nick Linford 6y Nick Linford 6y News AELP call for retraining scheme rethink to avoid another “expensive skills white elephant” The National Retraining Scheme should be relaunched as a ‘traineeship for adults,’ according to the Association of Employment and… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Revealed: More than one in ten colleges lose cash under controversial English and maths condition-of-funding rules Twenty three of the 171 (13 per cent) colleges have been stripped of £1,468,934 in their funding allocation due… Nick Linford 6y Nick Linford 6y News Revealed: The FE winners honoured in the 2019 Pearson Teaching Awards A college lecturer and a sixth form college are among 13 winners honoured in the 2019 Pearson Teaching Awards… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Exclusive More UTCs to recruit from year 7 as trust softens stance on entry age Two more university technical colleges have ditched their 14 to 19-year-old intakes to recruit from 11, with predictions that… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofsted watch: A ‘reasonable week’ for new apprenticeship providers It has been a mostly positive week for new apprenticeship providers according to Ofsted’s monitoring reports. Together Training Ltd… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Thousands celebrate second ever Colleges Week Thousands of students, staff and people who love colleges across the country signed pledge cards and handed them to… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Exclusive Providers risk handing back £38m in next 20 years if they quit T-levels Colleges will have to keep on running T-levels for at least 20 years if they want to avoid handing… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Exclusive ‘Worryingly low’ number of BAME college leaders to be tackled with new scheme A ‘Diversity in Leadership Programme’ is to be launched, following analysis published by FE Week which found just 7… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive College quality hits record high A record high proportion of Ofsted-inspected colleges are now rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’, FE Week can reveal. Our analysis… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Sixth form staff march across Westminster to protest for fairer college funding “We want the Department for Education to love our colleges” was the message from sixth form staff marching across… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y Newer 1 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 815 Older 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 3w Jessica Hill 3w 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo