Colleges

Search begins for college social action champions

Nominations for second Good for Me Good for FE awards now open

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Politics

Helen Hayes elected education committee chair

SEND reform, child poverty and a ‘fit-for-purpose’ skills system are on Hayes’ agenda

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
WorldSkills 2024, WorldSkills UK

Team UK off to strong start on day 1 of WorldSkills Lyon

Some nerves and a mix of confidence makes for a fairly smooth start to first day of competition

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Pay, Strikes

Strike ballot to launch for sixth form college teachers after pay snub

Ministers have extended the 5.5% school teacher pay award to sixth form colleges, but only those that have academised

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Politics, Skills reform

ESFA to close in March 2025

Another education-related quango bites the dust with agency’s functions to be absorbed by DfE

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
WorldSkills 2024, WorldSkills UK

Macron declares WorldSkills 2024 officially open

Macron led rousing speeches, Team UK flew the flag in front of thousands and much more from the opening…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel


Students

A third of colleges reported a death by suicide in past year, survey finds

Leaders call for more support through Labour’s new children’s wellbeing bill

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
WorldSkills 2024

Watch live: WorldSkills 2024 opening ceremony

Cheer on Team UK as they fly the flag alongside mainstage performances and an address from President Macron at…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics

Revealed: The three candidates for education committee chair

Two former children’s minister and disability rights campaigner compete for influential job

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
WorldSkills 2024

WorldSkills 2028 host country revealed

Delegates at the WorldSkills general assembly have voted on who to host the 2028 competition – with Japan winning…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
WorldSkills 2024

Team UK land in Lyon for WorldSkills

FE Week is on location in Lyon as members of Team UK make final preparations for a week of…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Long read, Skills England

Can Skills England really fix our broken skills system?

Labour quango Skills England has a mission to boost growth by fixing skills gaps, but how can it swerve the…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill

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