Adult education

AoC: Immigration charge on businesses should fund ESOL

£2.1 billion from employer tax should readdress decline in ESOL funding, new report recommends

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

SFCA drops judicial review after reaching pay ‘agreement’ with DfE

Sixth form college pay offer increases but strikes continue after union rejects the offer that is still ‘inferior’ to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

ESFA chief David Withey to become college principal

He will lead a college in the south west when the agency closes in March

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Lifetime lines up high street deals for ‘Big Apprenticeship Thank You’

Retailers and restaurants will offer discounts for ‘The Big Apprenticeship Thank You’

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Ofsted

Ofsted chief faces new year committee grilling

Sir Martyn Oliver to face MPs over progress in addressing coroner’s concerns following death of Ruth Perry

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

New year honours 2025: Who got what in FE and skills?

College leaders, governors and a leading apprenticeships researcher among 19 recognised

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen


News

Former union chief Bousted made a Baroness

Mary Bousted will sit on the red benches as a Labour life peer

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
SEND

MPs launch inquiry to find SEND solutions

The education select committee want solutions that will fix the broken SEND system and improve outcomes

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Ofsted

Ofsted to trial ‘new inspection approach’ in January

Ofsted also published its first update on Big Listen actions

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Skills bootcamps

Bootcamps: Providers ‘pushed’ to prioritise job-ready learners

Demanding targets failed to take into account learners who were further from the job market

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Ofsted

‘Herculean team effort’ lands top Ofsted marks for Suffolk college

Inspectors praise social mobility focus in grade 1 report

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Politics, Skills reform

Teacher misconduct laws extended to FE colleges and providers

Children’s wellbeing and schools bill puts further education teachers in scope of lifetime bans

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

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
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