News

Former college leadership and ESFA financial oversight in the dock

A damning FE Commissioner report has revealed how Hadlow Group’s leaders concealed the truth of its financial position until…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Revealed: the quarter-of-a-million pound brand to boost T-levels’ visibility

The government has unveiled its new branding for T-levels, in what has been described as the “first step” toward…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Provider to stop delivering care apprentice standards after DfE rejects funding rate plea

A significant apprenticeship provider plans to stop recruiting in the care sector after the government rejected calls to increase…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Creditors lose out as eResponse liquidators settle for just £200k

The directors of a provider that had its government funding contracts terminated following an FE Week exposé only have…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education, Devolution

Revealed: The 5 winners of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough AEB tender

The five training providers that have won contracts with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to deliver its devolved adult education budget…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofsted finds learners unaware they are on an apprenticeship programme

An experienced commercial training provider has been heavily criticised by Ofsted after it found a “high proportion” of learners…

Jessica Fino
Jessica Fino


News

Hadlow Group colleges scandal: The FE Commissioner’s 6 key findings

The FE Commissioner reports into a college group that has been engulfed in a financial scandal have been published…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

High Court judge places Hadlow College into administration

Hadlow College has been put into administration today, making it the first college to fall under the insolvency regime…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Revealed: The 30 winners of the Greater London Authority AEB tender

The names of the 30 providers to win contracts with the Greater London Authority to deliver its devolved adult…

Simon Kay
Simon Kay
News

PAC apprenticeships progress report: The 6 recommendations

The Public Accounts Committee has today published its progress report into the apprenticeship reforms that were introduced in April…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Apprenticeships programme ‘out of kilter’ with DfE’s own objectives, PAC warns

The way the apprenticeships programme is evolving is “out of kilter” with the government’s own objectives and “poor execution”…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Revealed: The 19 winners of the Liverpool City Region AEB tender

The names of the 19 training providers that have won contracts with Liverpool City Region to deliver its devolved…

Jessica Fino
Jessica Fino

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