News Exclusive DfE paid £1m to settle Hadlow Group’s legal case The Department for Education forked out £1 million to settle a legal dispute at a college group under investigation and already relying… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News FE Week takes on charity cycle challenge with South and City College Birmingham FE Week’s editor Nick Linford and publisher Shane Mann will be joining a team from South and City College… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Exclusive Investigation: How West Nottinghamshire College is fighting for survival West Nottinghamshire College entered the public eye last year when it ran into financial difficulties that led to government… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive Baker U-turns by telling all UTCs they could survive by joining multi-academy trusts University Technical Colleges are being pressured to join multi-academy trusts after the programme’s architect Lord Baker U-turned on previous… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Ofsted slams civil service apprentices scheme for inappropriate management courses A provider that trains civil servants has been slammed by Ofsted for putting science graduates on apprenticeships that are… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Boss of charity behind the UTC programme to step down The chief executive of the organisation that is behind the troubled university technical colleges programme is stepping down. Charles… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Government to fund free sanitary products in colleges The government will fund free sanitary products for all students in colleges and secondary schools from September. Chancellor Philip… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Revealed: Apprenticeship employer fees to be halved from April 1 – no joke The 10-per-cent fee that small businesses must pay when they take on apprentices will be halved from April 1,… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Damning Ofsted visit finds provider not knowing who its apprentices are A training provider has been heavily criticised for not knowing accurately enough who their apprentices are, in an Ofsted… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Exclusive Apprenticeship framework certification boss steps down with immediate effect The managing director of the Federation of Industry Sector Skills and Standards (FISSS) has stepped down with immediate effect,… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofqual rules out tendering to take over apprenticeship quality assurance Ofqual has ruled itself out of delivering the apprenticeship external quality assurance service for the Institute for Apprenticeships and… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Education that gets out of classrooms and into the community Six per cent of adults with learning disabilities are in paid employment – something that specialist colleges are working… Catherine Murray 6y Catherine Murray 6y Newer 1 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 815 Older Must read 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 2w Jessica Hill 2w 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe Anviksha Patel 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Colleges Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying… Anviksha Patel 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo T Levels NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students Anviksha Patel 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo