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
News

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
News

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
News

Concern at negative impact of FE loans on disadvantaged

The FE sector is worried by the negative impact FE loans have had on learners from disadvantaged backgrounds. A…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Support Our Sixth-formers: DfE urged to redirect 16-19 underspend

The 16-to-19 education budget was underspent by £106 million last year, and campaigners now want the DfE to direct…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Somerset Skills & Learning to make major redundancies after AEB debacle

A large community learning provider in Somerset that was hit hard by the adult education budget fiasco is likely…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

16-19

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE

A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
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