News Pressure mounts on Student Loans Company over learner loan scandal The Student Loans Company is feeling the strain of an FE loans scandal that has left hundreds of learners… Paul Offord 7y Paul Offord 7y News Finalists for 2018 AAC Apprenticeship Awards announced After an overwhelming response to our call for nominations, the shortlist for the inaugural AAC Apprenticeship Awards has been… FE Week Reporter 7y FE Week Reporter 7y News Exclusive Adult education budget climbdown cost £16m The government has had to pump an extra £16 million into the adult education budget to appease a group… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Exclusive Revealed: the 12 colleges surviving on government bailouts Twelve cash-strapped colleges received secret government bailouts totalling more than £11 million in December. It perhaps demonstrates a significant… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News Exclusive Stoke-on-Trent College received a half-million bailout Stoke-on-Trent College is almost £16 million in the red and received more than £500,000 in exceptional financial support in… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News T-Levels consultation: Here’s what the sector really thinks Tonight the T Level public consultation closes after running for 10 weeks and seeking answers to 45 questions. It sought… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Exclusive 200,000 FE staff are now trained in Prevent Over 200,000 people working in FE have completed training to help them understand their duty to prevent the radicalisation… Nick Linford 7y Nick Linford 7y News DfE’s teaching and leadership in FE report: The five main findings The Department for Education has today published a research report exploring quality of teaching and leadership in FE. ‘Teaching,… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News Ten colleges failed to secure apprenticeship funding for small employers, DfE reveals Ten colleges which once held contracts to deliver apprenticeships with small employers were not awarded funding in the recent… Billy Camden 7y Billy Camden 7y News College sector performance continues rapid improvement Just under three quarters of colleges are now rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted, as the sector’s rapid improvement… Nick Linford 7y Nick Linford 7y News Exclusive Bradford College bailed out twice in a single month A college was bailed out twice in December, to the tune of £1.5 million each time, FE Week has… Jude Burke 7y Jude Burke 7y News National College for Nuclear launched A national college planning to train the bulk of the country’s workforce for Britain’s nuclear industry opens today. The… Nick Linford 7y Nick Linford 7y Newer 1 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 818 Older Must read Colleges, Long read 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 4d Jessica Hill 4d 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 Next 3 stories 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 3mo Billy Camden 3mo 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
