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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
Fraser Whieldon
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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
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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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
Fraser Whieldon
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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
Fraser Whieldon
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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
Billy Camden
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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
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu


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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
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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12 months of FE Week: November

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Here’s…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

12 months of FE Week: October

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Today…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

12 months of FE Week: September

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Here’s…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

Queen’s New Year honours 2020: Who got what in FE and skills?

A former specialist college principal has been made a dame while a well-known champion of adult education has been…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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12 months of FE Week: August

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Today…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu

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Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, 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
Jessica Hill
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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…

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Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release

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