News Scotland and Wales win big at Skills Show 2016 competition finals Scottish and Welsh Colleges have emerged as the big winners at the Skills Show 2016 in Birmingham as they… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Skills Show Results 2016 – organisation league table Organisation league table for the 2016 WorldSkills UK Skills Show competition finals. Rank Points Organisation Gold Silver Bronze Highly Commended… FE Week Reporter 9y FE Week Reporter 9y News Skills Show Results 2016 by competition Full list of results by competition area for the 2016 WorldSkills UK Skills Show competition finals. Competition Forename… Nick Linford 9y Nick Linford 9y News FE Week’s annual charity auction raises a whopping £14,000 A last-minute donation from the new FE commissioner pushed the total money raised at the FE Week 2016 annual… Jude Burke 9y Jude Burke 9y News Editor Asks: David Hughes in conversation (part 2) Part two of our wide-ranging interview with the new AoC boss David Hughes covers the new FE commissioner, area… Nick Linford 9y Nick Linford 9y News National schools commissioner addresses college leaders The eight RSCs work closely with the national schools commissioner Sir David Carter, who put in two appearances at… FE Week 9y FE Week 9y News Guess the FE cartoons! FE Week’s brilliant cartoonist Bill Houston was quick on the draw at the Association of Colleges conference this week,… Paul Offord 9y Paul Offord 9y News President to make 2017 the year FE colleges tackle mental health The new president of the Association of Colleges will dedicate his term in office to tackling what he described… Alix Robertson 9y Alix Robertson 9y News Richard Atkins: The FE sector ‘is doing pretty well’ The FE sector is not doomed, the new commissioner has insisted during upbeat speech dismissing claims that it was… Jude Burke 9y Jude Burke 9y News Government adviser criticises full-time vocational courses The whole notion of full-time vocational courses has been “challenged” by the man who chairs the Apprenticeship Delivery Board,… Paul Offord 9y Paul Offord 9y News Lord Sainsbury criticised over ‘retail assistant’ comments Lord Sainsbury has been branded an “elitist” after he claimed in a speech to the Association of Colleges’ annual… Alix Robertson 9y Alix Robertson 9y News Colleges go a decade without full inspection Two colleges in England have now gone more than 10 years without a full inspection – setting a new… Alix Robertson 9y Alix Robertson 9y Newer 1 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 829 Older Must read Qualifications Exclusive 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 2w Shane Chowen 2w Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Colleges, Long read 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo Long read, Prison education Long read 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 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments Billy Camden 6mo Billy Camden 6mo