News

AoC rejects nearly half of the T-level funding consultation proposals

The Association of Colleges has rejected six out of 14 proposals put forward by the government in its consultation…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Revealed: The commissioners selected for Labour’s adult education advisory board

A team of 16 education experts have joined Labour’s lifelong learning commission. Among the new commissioners are former education…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Hadlow Group suspends principal and deputy pending investigations

The principal and deputy principal of the Hadlow Group have been suspended as multiple investigations are launched into their…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

College recovers £500k Saudi Arabian debt

A college that recently terminated its contract with the controversial Saudi Arabian Colleges of Excellence programme due to on-going…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Halfon’s call to replace GCSEs and A-levels with ‘holistic baccalaureate’ denounced as ‘reckless’

Calls to replace GCSEs and A-levels with a “holistic baccalaureate” have been branded a “non-starter” by an advocate of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Ofsted watch: Week of extremes for FE providers

Results from this week’s Ofsted reports for FE have ranged between the very worst and the very best. Independent…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon


News

Third time lucky? European Social Fund tender contracting delayed again

The Education and Skills Funding Agency is delaying the issuing of European Social Fund contracts for a third time…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

John Ruskin College commended by FE Commissioner’s report

A sixth-form college that has fallen into trouble in recent years has been commended by the FE commissioner for…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Hadlow Group appoints troubleshooter as interim principal

A troubled college group whose boss has gone on sick leave following intervention from the FE Commissioner has appointed…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Major training firm with contracts across government goes into administration

A major training provider with around 1,000 staff has called in the administrators, FE Week understands. Working Links (Employment)…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

DfE confirms ban on recruitment of apprentices at BPP University months after Ofsted warning

The government has finally confirmed that a huge private university has been stopped from recruiting new starts months after…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Macclesfield College handed financial health notice to improve

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has handed a financial health notice to improve to Macclesfield College. It follows…

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon

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
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
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
Anviksha Patel