News

MPs back widening role of new Careers & Enterprise Company

A long-awaited MPs’ report has called for the government to consult on handing over control of the National Careers…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Students protest over college’s plan to axe courses

Students protested today outside Burton and South Derbyshire College over plans to axe their courses. The college confirmed to FE Week…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Boles upbeat over area reviews, despite continued delays

Post-16 education and skills area reviews have so far gone “surprisingly well”, according to Nick Boles, who has admitted…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

£100m more funding found for apprenticeships and traineeships

The government has found almost £100m of additional funding for apprenticeships and traineeships through the latest round of growth…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Post-Brexit views from delegates

An FE Week Twitter poll on the opening day of the AELP conference asked whether Skills Minister Nick Boles…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Ward Warning – get data right else face funding clawback

The Skills Funding Agency has written to all colleges and independent learning providers to make sure they are aware…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


News

Joy as Joyce vows no two-tier Ofsted regime

There will be no special treatment for employers which become providers in order to use their apprenticeship levy funding,…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

Martin Doel: ‘FE providers mustn’t slag each other off’

The outgoing boss of the Association of Colleges has launched into a plea for sector unity — after warning…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

*Exclusive* Cornwall College principal Amarjit Basi resigns

The principal of Cornwall College has resigned, according to a statement from the chair of the board of governors…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

NCG first college granted full taught-degree awarded powers

NCG (formerly Newcastle College Group) is the first FE institution in the country to be authorised to develop and…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Clean sweep of notices of concern for Telford College of Arts and Technology

A college that recently tumbled from good to inadequate has become the first to have a clean sweep of…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Incoming Ofsted chief at pains to soothe FE sector

Ofsted’s new chief inspector has pledged to remove the “blanket of concern” over FE that many believe have been…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

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
Colleges, FE Commissioner

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
T Levels

NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure

Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel