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12 months of FE Week: July

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
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12 months of FE Week: June

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

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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12 months of FE Week: May

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

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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12 months of FE Week: April

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

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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12 months of FE Week: March

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

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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12 months of FE Week: February

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

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofsted watch: An uncomfortable week for many providers

Three independent learning providers received a grade three from Ofsted, in a mixed week for FE providers. One independent…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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Hull college boss quits despite chair telling staff investigation found ‘no impropriety’

The chief executive at a college under investigation for nepotism and ‘financial wrongdoing’ is leaving, FE Week can reveal….

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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Highbury College appoints former AoC chief as interim chair

A college embroiled in an expenses scandal has appointed an ex-chief executive of the Association of Colleges (AoC) as its…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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12 months of FE Week: January

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

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Halfon seeks re-election as chair of education committee

Robert Halfon, the former education minister who chaired the Parliamentary education committee for the past two-and-a-half years, is seeking…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
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Forensic auditors called in to investigate ‘unplanned deficit’ at leading college

An investigation has been launched at Gateshead College after it had an unexplained deficit in the last financial year….

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu

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Skills reform
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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