Apprenticeships

Starts fell for most apprenticeships after ‘exceptional’ funding review

Care worker apprenticeships dived the most

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Budget 2024

Treat colleges and schools fairly on any NI reform, unions say

Colleges were snubbed last time round

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

Suicide risk over SEND confusion, coroner warns

‘I am concerned this creates or increases the risk of avoidable suicidality developing’

Billy Camden
Chaminda Jayanetti
skills

‘Uncertainty’ frustrated £2.6bn skills fund delivery, report finds

Comes months before UKSPF contract ‘cliff-edge’

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
News

Deadline for results checking service extended after tech issue

New data service hit by technical problems in the first year it has been moved back in-house to the…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Budget 2024, Colleges

EPI outlines ‘clear picture’ that college finances are worse than unis

Think tank urges Labour not to forget FE amid HE financial crisis talks

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


Adult education, Colleges

FE Commissioner’s verdict on 2 struggling colleges and a council

Intervention reports shed more light on NewVIc conflict, reveal how a college nearly ran out of cash and that…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
DfE, skills

DfE scores with Sky Sports-style ads for FE

Research shows increased interest in FE teaching since the campaign’s launch in 2022

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

Colleges to manage student parents’ childcare claims

Portal to submit claims will be shut down from next year

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Pay

AoC makes ‘disappointing’ 2.5% pay recommendation

‘Colleges cannot afford more’ according to the sector body

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Skills England

DfE launches Skills England CEO job advert

£130k role will be below director general level and post-holder expected to come from inside government or business

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
CPD

DfE considers more GCSE resit training for college staff

Government considering extra CPD for regions with ‘higher resit levels’

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel

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