Teaching awards

Revealed: The 2024 Pearson Teaching Awards winners

Sixteen winners from early years, schools and colleges recognised

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Ofsted

Ofsted chair Dame Christine Ryan to step down

Education secretary praises Ryan for leadership during ‘a period of significant challenges’

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Apprenticeships

Off-the-job ‘confusion’ sparks apprentice mental health warning

Apprentices struggling with anxiety and stress from job and college demands, survey finds

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Strikes

Restructure triggers fresh UCU staff strikes

UCU claims strike action ‘undermines’ efforts to solve internal dispute

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Multiply

Multiply subtracted: Sunak’s flagship maths scheme to end

DfE confirms public subsidy for the programme will cease next year

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships

Ditching level 7 apprenticeships saves £240m, MPs told

Spending figures from 2017 to 2024 revealed

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


Colleges

Pearson and colleges agree truce over GCSE resits row

Plans for a judicial review over this summer’s grade boundary hike have been dropped

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Pay, Strikes

Sixth form college teachers march on Westminster

Union members take pay fight to DfE HQ

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Apprenticeships

ITP apprentice market share hits new heights and more from 23/24

Full-year apprenticeship data has been released. Here’s what you need to know

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges, Ofsted

Cumbrian college dealt ‘inadequate’ Ofsted blow

Leaders and governors take the flak as attendance, retention and achievement declines

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

GCSE resits: November 2024 entries rise by 21%

27,000 more students resat English and maths exams this month compared to 2023

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

National Education Union deputy general secretary Niamh Sweeney resigns

Former sixth form college teacher was first person elected to the role, and was not due for re-election until…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker

Must read

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
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, FE Commissioner

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
Anviksha Patel
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
Anviksha Patel