Colleges, Pay AoC delays pay recommendation until September Colleges need summer to work new £160m funding into budgets, David Hughes says Anviksha Patel 2w Anviksha Patel 2w Skills bootcamps Northcoders bags full stack of top grades in first inspection The company’s CEO says the grade is a ‘clear validation’ of the standards staff strive for Josh Mellor 2w Josh Mellor 2w Ofsted Ofsted pledges specialist inspectors for most visits from November All FE inspections will also be led by either current or recent HMIs, says the watchdog Anviksha Patel 2w Anviksha Patel 2w Higher education Think tank calls for FE-style franchising crackdown in HE Planned DfE reforms to franchising amount to ‘regulatory negligence’, says The Post-18 Project Shane Chowen 2w Shane Chowen 2w Skills reform FE inquiry: MPs grill Smith on pay, cuts and careers Parity of teacher pay is a ‘fairly basic problem’, the education committee chair suggested Josh Mellor 3w Josh Mellor 3w Ofsted Ofsted: Unions consider asking leaders to quit as inspectors Leadership unions warn they will take the ‘unprecedented step’ unless watchdog changes course over inspection plans FE Week Reporter 3w FE Week Reporter 3w Apprenticeships Long read Banter, firework emails and power ‘grab’ defended by ex-SFA chief in Marples trial Sir Peter Lauener was cross-examined for 2 days. Here’s what we learned… Billy Camden 3w Billy Camden and Charlie Moloney 3w Skills reform Industrial strategy: growth and skills levy courses start next year Other new measures include ‘defence technical excellence colleges’ Josh Mellor 3w Josh Mellor 3w T Levels £6.3m available for T Level placement incentive fund for employers DfE confirms funding for health and construction employers, including SMEs Anviksha Patel 3w Anviksha Patel 3w Adult education, Long read Inside the evergreen sanctuary of Fircroft adult residential college Inspired by Denmark’s folk high schools, Birmingham’s Fircroft College still provides a home-from-home for people with addiction and mental… Jessica Hill 3w Jessica Hill 3w Colleges WCG sells contentious campus after High Court win The proceeds will be used to pay off debts from an ongoing government funding audit Josh Mellor 3w Josh Mellor 3w Colleges DfE appoints three new FE national leaders Principals of ‘outstanding’ colleges have been enlisted to help other colleges improve FE Week Reporter 3w FE Week Reporter 3w Newer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 817 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 4w Jessica Hill 4w 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo
