News Exclusive Labour leads FE Week readers’ poll More FE professionals will be backing Labour than the Conservatives at next week’s general election, exclusive FE Week polling… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News IFS warns FE funding pledges may lead to fraud and poor value for money The “extremely large” rises in adult education spending proposed by Labour and the Liberal Democrats open up “genuine risks”… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Lecturers strike at London college despite agreeing pay deal last year Strikes started today at a large London college just a year and a half after staff agreed a pay… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Interim principal joins Highbury College following DfE intervention A college embroiled in an expenses scandal has appointed an experienced FE leader as its interim principal. Penny Wycherley… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y Feature, News Forces for good: ex-military impress as trainee lecturers Successive governments are not giving up on the idea of getting former military personnel into classrooms, but could FE… Jess Staufenberg 6y Jess Staufenberg 6y News Hadlow College sells Betteshanger Park for undisclosed sum The first college to enter education administration has taken an “important step forward” after it sold its country and… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofsted finds ‘many’ employers did not know staff were apprentices “Many” employers working with a new independent provider for the care sector did not know their staff were on… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Exclusive UTCs back in the market – but there’s a catch The first applications in five years have been lodged for new university technical colleges, FE Week can reveal –… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofsted watch: Long-running commercial provider hit with grade 4 in poor week for FE It has been a poor week for FE, with one independent provider being declared ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted and seven… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News National Apprenticeship Award winners of 2019 The “outstanding” work of apprentices, government officials and employers was recognised at the National Apprenticeship Awards for 2019 on… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Police and schools top list of those missing apprenticeship targets The police and schools are the public-sector bodies with most to do to meet the government’s apprenticeship recruitment target,… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Ofsted praise college therapy dogs as popularity on the rise A dog that helps students struggling with mental-health issues has won praise from Ofsted inspectors. Bexhill College in East… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Newer 1 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 830 Older Must read Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 5d Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 5d Qualifications Exclusive 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 3w Shane Chowen 3w Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Next 3 stories Colleges, Long read 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo
