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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
News

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
News

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
News

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
Billy Camden
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
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu


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
Fraser Whieldon
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
Billy Camden
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
Jess Staufenberg
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
Fraser Whieldon
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
Fraser Whieldon
News

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
Fraser Whieldon

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Adult education, Apprenticeships, Skills reform

Apprenticeships purge: Team leader and chartered manager among 16 axed standards

Ministers also unveil the first 7 apprenticeship units

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges, Politics

Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’

The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund
Colleges, Long read

Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail

More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised,…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read

Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching

In her final interview, the outgoing FE Commissioner warns colleges not to mistake funding rises for financial safety

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Young people

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE

A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen