News

FE Commissioner passes judgement on £20m college subcontracting scandal

A college faces “multiple, difficult and high-risk” challenges after being rocked by a £20 million subcontracting scandal which has…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Vision express: how FE policy has wasted billions

As Gavin Williamson promises to match Germany in the delivery of vocational and technical education in ten years, JL…

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut
News

HMRC criticised by Ofsted for uniform apprenticeship programme

The HMRC has been criticised by Ofsted for keeping hundreds of apprentices on programme for the same duration. The…

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu
News

New research leads AoC to demand extra funding for students with ‘complex’ needs

Funding for students progressing to college from Pupil Referral Units should more than double to £10,000, the Association of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Student safety charter to be launched in Colleges Week

Twenty one colleges in the West Midlands have joined forces to produce a region-wide approach to educating learners about…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofsted watch: College making ‘reasonable progress’ since going into administration

West Kent and Ashford College has scored well in its first Ofsted monitoring visit since it went into administration,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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College loses High Court battle with HE regulator

A college has been refused admission to the Office for Students’ register of higher education providers and had an…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Apprentices’ concerns are still not being heard, admits DfE

Apprentices are struggling to raise concerns about poor training, the Department for Education has found, while their tool allowing…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Brooklands College may be forced to sell historic building

A college fighting for survival is considering selling a historic building, FE Week understands. Brooklands College is in severe…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

DfE raps company claiming to be approved apprenticeship provider

The government has written to a new training firm demanding it stops claiming to high-profile employers it can deliver…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

OfS urged to ‘get a move on’ and inspect apprenticeship quality

A former adviser to the minister for higher education has expressed “concern” that dozens of providers delivering level 6…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Computer game and ’80 piece’ orchestra spend investigated at Hull College

The husband of the chief executive at a college surviving on bailout funding used the marketing budget to hire…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

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’

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill