News

Crisis deepens as learners drop at two thirds of UTCs

Learner numbers have dropped at around two thirds of established university technical colleges this academic year, an FE Week…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Why the delay for Learndirect inspection report?

Ofsted’s eagerly awaited inspection report on the nation’s largest FE provider has been delayed by six weeks, with the…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News, WorldSkills 2017

Team UK selected for WorldSkills 2017 in Abu Dhabi

Apprentices from Toyota, Airbus and Topshop are among 32 of the country’s elite learners who have been selected to…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Levy launch ‘horror’ story predicted following apprenticeship funding allocations

Apprenticeship providers are facing up to a “horror story” of bankruptcy and failure after receiving funding allocations that amount…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Exclusive: North London colleges’ merger called off

A London merger that had previously gone from a three-way to a two-way is now not happening at all….

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Former principals named on mayor’s Skills for Londoners taskforce

Skills training took centre stage in the capital city this morning when a new strategic taskforce, containing two former…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke


News

Highly unusual decision taken to extend principal’s notice period to full year

A large city college in “financial crisis” has taken the highly unusual step of extending the contract of employment…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Emily Chapman elected as new NUS VP for FE

The FE sector has a new student champion, with Emily Chapman winning today’s election to become the National Union…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

FE champion Shakira Martin elected NUS president

FE champion Shakira Martin [pictured above] has emerged victorious in the race to become the next president of the…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Non-levy funding allocations sent to providers following tender pause

Colleges and training providers were last night sent a funding allocation for apprenticeship starts from next month to 31…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Technical and FE bill passes: what does it mean for the sector?

The Technical and Further Education Bill received final clearance from the House of Lords this afternoon, and it is…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Labour pledges to bring back education maintenance allowance

Labour will raise corporation tax to fund the re-introduction of the education maintenance allowance, the party has revealed today….

Paul Offord
Paul Offord

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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
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