Ofsted

Ofsted launches search for new post-16 and skills boss

Permanent replacement for Paul Joyce will join watchdog after inspection reform rollout

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education, Apprenticeships, Colleges, SEND, Skills reform, T Levels

FE ‘engine’ running on fumes as MPs call for funding and pay reforms

Education committee makes 40+ wide-ranging recommendations concluding its future of FE inquiry

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Staff

UCU puts 76 colleges on notice over pay and workloads

Principals have until October 3 to agree a 10 per cent pay award or face formal trade disputes

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Long read

The other King’s college

Jessica Hill visits King Charles’ Dumfries House and Highgrove House estates where the King’s Foundation teaches heritage courses ranging…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Skills reform

NEETs top McFadden’s DWP skills agenda

The work and pensions secretary wants jobcentres to offer training as a ‘springboard to better futures’

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
EuroSkills 2025

Debrief from Denmark

Team UK brought six medals home from Denmark

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel


Apprenticeships

‘World-class’ government apprenticeship app flops

Users hit with errors in government £1.2m app for apprentices

Shane Chowen
Bill Curtis
Colleges

Best-in-class social action champions wanted for FE awards

Nominations for the Good for Me Good for FE awards 2025 are now open

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Colleges

Staff pay recommendation will be unaffordable for ‘many’ colleges, say AoC

Colleges with significant adult provision will find it ‘impossible’ to give 4 per cent pay rise

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
SEND, Skills reform

MPs demand funding and transport guarantees for FE SEND students

Post-16 SEND students are ‘rarely prioritised’ says education committee

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Higher education

OfS to end TEF opt-out for colleges and small providers

Office for Students also considers adding apprenticeship outcomes to its quality measures

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Careers

Careers service shake-up ‘rebrand, not reform’, say MPs

The government wants Jobcentres to offer more employment support and careers advice

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor

Must read

Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
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