News Exclusive College to spend £250k paying off learner loans after subcontracting scandal A college will pay off almost £250,000 in loans debt for 59 victims of a subcontracting scandal. FE Week… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Ofsted: Campus grades on the cards for 2020 A move to campus-level Ofsted grades for college groups is back on the cards and they could be introduced… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Teacher warned learners of ‘terror’ attack in latest college hack A Manchester sixth form college has become the sector’s latest cyber-attack victim, after criminals hacked a teacher’s email to… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofsted reveals National College surviving on bailouts has just 24 classroom students A National College due to dissolve in the new year has just 24 classroom students – its first-ever Ofsted… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News First ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating for FE college under new framework The first college to receive a grade one rating under Ofsted’s new inspection framework is Newcastle and Stafford Colleges… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Conservatives pledge £1.8bn capital investment for FE colleges The Conservatives have announced plans to put £1.8 billion into capital investment for further education colleges. In a speech… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive Stella suspended following FE Commissioner intervention A principal at the centre of a college expenses scandal has been suspended, FE Week can reveal. Stella Mbubaegbu… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News High-profile college leader to retire The well-known leader of a high-profile college has announced his intention to retire after more than 11 years at… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News ESFA bans 8 more providers from recruiting apprentices Another eight apprenticeship providers have been stopped from doing new business after being rapped by Ofsted. The penalties were… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Does Corbyn’s ‘education escalator’ still include free adult learning? Labour’s commitment to fully funding beginner and “second-chance” short adult education courses has been questioned, after the political party… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News UCU threatens strike action over AoC’s ‘derisory’ 1% staff pay rise recommendation The University and College Union has threatened more strike action in the new year after the Association of Colleges… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Insolvency Service investigating Hadlow College directors The former leaders of the first college to enter education administration are being investigated by the Insolvency Service. The… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y Newer 1 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 830 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 4d Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 4d 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
