News, WorldSkills 2017

WorldSkills 2017: Full medal tables published

Team UK’s position as one the best in the world at vocational skills has been reaffirmed following World Skills…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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Ofsted watch: Two colleges improve to ‘good’ rating

Two FE colleges are celebrating Ofsted success this week after climbing from a grade 3 to a grade 2….

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

Colleges lose £1.2 million under controversial condition-of-funding rules

Four providers have been stripped of more than £100,000 due to the controversial English and maths condition-of-funding rule, although…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

Budget 2017: Non-levy funding looms large

The autumn budget will be delivered by the chancellor on November 22, and leading sector bodies have made requests…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Cash-strapped college wastes £3m on development plans

A cash-strapped London college spent more than £3 million on plans to develop one of its sites that never…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
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End point assessment crisis – apprentices who can’t complete

End-point assessment has hit crisis point – as FE leaders warn that the first wave of learners are reaching…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke


News, WorldSkills 2017

WorldSkills 2017: Team UK strikes gold in Abu Dhabi

Team UK has retained its top-10 position at WorldSkills this year, after our competitors bagged one gold, three silvers,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

‘DfE must employ civil servants who went to college’ says AoC boss

The chief of the Association of Colleges has publicly criticised the Department for Education for trying to reform the…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

Employers more satisfied with private providers again… but colleges catching up

Private training providers have once again proved themselves to be more popular with employers than colleges, according to government…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News, WorldSkills 2017

Worldskills 2017: Watch the closing ceremony live from Abu Dhabi

Today marks the end of the 44th WorldSkills competition – in which representatives from 59 nations have competed in…

FE Week
FE Week
News

Emotions high as Team UK competitors complete their work

Emotions were high as the first round of Team UK competitors completed their work for WorldSkills UK today.  Jordan…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News, WorldSkills 2017

WorldSkills 2017: Team UK’s gold standard show their support before the final hurdle

Anxious, tired and excited – that’s how 34 of the UK’s most talented young people in the skills industry…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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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
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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
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The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release

‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’

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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

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