Feature, News The principal who took over two failed colleges and came out smiling Mike Hopkins has more experience than most principals of overseeing college mergers. In January of this year South and… Catherine Murray 6y Catherine Murray 6y News Revealed: The 34 colleges with £270m of government loans and bailouts last year The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) has revealed the colleges with millions in government loans and bailouts. According… Simon Kay 6y Simon Kay 6y News Exclusive Chartered Institute of FE admits to having no employees The Chartered Institution for Further Education has been left with no employees after its CEO quietly stood down in… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Two years since the levy launched, skills minister reflects on success of a ‘carrot and stick’ policy Employers with a payroll of £3 million or more made their first monthly apprenticeship levy payment in April 2017… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Ofsted watch: UTC jumps from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’ A university technical college was celebrating this week after it climbed its way up from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’, while… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Universities and training providers clash on apprenticeship priorities It is “entirely unacceptable” to expect public sector employers to subsidise low-level apprenticeships for chefs and hairdressers, a university… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Exclusive Overspend: GLA warns of risk to AEB devo project The Greater London Authority has denied that devolution of the adult education budget is at risk due to spiralling… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Exclusive It’s FE Week wot won it: 5 month mystery of missing £300k levy ‘resolved’ by ESFA The Education and Skills Funding Agency has finally returned £300,000 to a large high-profile employer within hours of FE… Jessica Fino 6y Jessica Fino 6y News Third of apprentices on standards not ready for planned end-point assessment in 2017/18 One-third of apprentices on standards were not ready for their planned end-point assessment last year, the government has revealed…. Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News Exclusive Investigation by statistics watchdog after ESFA lists ‘unreliable’ providers The country’s national statistics regulator is investigating whether the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s apprenticeship achievement rate data can… Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y News AoC ‘disappointed’ local sustainability reviews won’t include schools The Association of Colleges has criticised the Department for Education’s new local area reviews for not including small “non-viable”… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Tenth UTC closure announced Yet another university technical college will close later this year, taking the total to 10 for the troubled programme…. Billy Camden 6y Billy Camden 6y Newer 1 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 821 Older Must read 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Billy Camden 4mo Colleges 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo
