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College delivers TV Christmas to local pensioner

Oldham College learners have teamed up with BBC Breakfast to deliver a Christmas tree and a carol concert to…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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UK competitor appointed to WorldSkills Champions Trust

A Team UK competitor has been appointed to the international WorldSkills Champions Trust, making him its sole representative from…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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The 8 concerns researchers found at approved T-level providers

The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has today published its second research report into T-levels. It follows a…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News, Sponsored post

Pearson launches new Learning Hub

Pearson has launched its latest digital venture in the form of a brand-new Learning Hub. Pearson Learning Hub, which…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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SFC delays Diamond payout report till January

A report into an influential college commission chair’s controversial payout from an ex-employer will be released in the New…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
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Ofsted watch: 4 ‘insufficient progress’ verdicts in mixed week for FE

A software firm and three providers working in the care sector have been heavily criticised by Ofsted, in a…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu


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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
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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
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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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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
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’

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Jessica Hill