News

No technical and professional education pilot until 2019/20

The reforms suggested by Lord Sainsbury’s influential review into technical and professional education (TPE) will not be piloted by…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Colleges challenge fewer exam grades than schools – with less success

Colleges are significantly less likely to challenge GCSE and A-level exam grades than schools – and they are more…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Colleges warned as scams on the rise again

Colleges have been warned to be on their guard against “sophisticated” fraudsters, after a scam involving fake faxes was…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Employers told to stick to ‘core business’ after Citroën blow

Firms taking on apprentices have been advised to stick “to their core business” — after Citroën UK became the…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Concern for FE in Cheshire after principals leave

Mid Cheshire College’s principal Richard Hollywood (pictured) is standing down – after its Ofsted rating tumbled from outstanding to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Unions oppose college and university merger

Unions have rejected a proposed link-up between Bury College and the University of Bolton — warning it would be…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke


News

Call for traineeships review as SFA forced to admit progressions to apprenticeships less than ‘positive’

The government has admitted that fewer than one in ten 19- to 24-year-olds who complete a traineeship course move…

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
News

Editor Asks: Union boss tackles the major challenges at UCU Annual Congress

Falling FE membership is an issue that has long been playing on the mind of Sally Hunt, general secretary…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

Principal Sunaina Mann leaves North East Surrey College of Technology

LATEST: Nescot accepts former £360k a year principal was unfairly dismissed The highest-paid college principal in the country has…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

Union members balloted for strike action at South Downs College

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at South Downs College are being balloted for strike action, in…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

University and College Union president slams political ignorance towards FE at conference

The outgoing president of the University and College Union (UCU) has slammed ignorance among politicians towards FE, in her…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

Fears for future of FE key topic at University and College Union conference

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) will head to Liverpool tomorrow for the start of the union’s…

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