News Exclusive ‘Worryingly low’ number of BAME college leaders to be tackled with new scheme A ‘Diversity in Leadership Programme’ is to be launched, following analysis published by FE Week which found just 7… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive College quality hits record high A record high proportion of Ofsted-inspected colleges are now rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’, FE Week can reveal. Our analysis… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Sixth form staff march across Westminster to protest for fairer college funding “We want the Department for Education to love our colleges” was the message from sixth form staff marching across… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofsted slams training for 500 apprentices at ‘world leading’ security firm A new provider that trains nearly 500 apprentices for a “world leading” security company has been rapped by Ofsted…. Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News UTC facing apprenticeship recruitment freeze after Ofsted criticism The first university technical college to receive an early monitoring visit for its apprenticeship provision has been heavily criticised… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News AoC: Replace Erasmus+ if the UK is kicked out after Brexit The government needs to pursue every avenue to stay in a Europe-wide student exchange scheme regardless the outcome of… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Record number of apprenticeships to be probed in engineering route review Fifty nine apprenticeship standards in engineering and manufacturing will be reviewed by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Union to present £700m sixth form college invoice to DfE Sixth form college staff will march on the Department for Education tomorrow and hand officials an invoice for £700… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Love our colleges campaign makes its mark in the East Midlands A group of ten East Midlands college leaders met up at Chesterfield College today to celebrate this year’s national… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News AQA to pay out £1.1m for ‘serious breaches’ on exam re-marks AQA has been fined £350,000 – the largest ever handed out by Ofqual – and will compensate schools and… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Chair and principal not ‘fully aware’ of college’s ‘imminent’ risk of insolvency Moulton College is in a “perilous position” and its chair and new principal do not appear to “fully recognise”… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News ‘Significant concerns’ over Hartlepool College’s financial sustainability There are “significant concerns” about Hartlepool College of Further Education’s financial sustainability, according to one of three FE Commissioner… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y Newer 1 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 830 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