Bulletin, News

FE Week and Me 2016 – VOTING OPEN

Once again hundreds of students from across the further education and skills sector entered our annual photography competition and…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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College managers ripping staff off, UCU head tells rally

The University and College Union (UCU) general secretary, Sally Hunt (pictured), has accused college managers of “ripping their staff…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Editor Asks: Will the EFA and SFA ever merge and what is this fas2t thing?

A new Funding Agencies Shared Service Team (FAS2T) covering finance, IT and data will be launched from April. It…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Training provider goes under

A national training provider has ceased trading four months after being hit with an ‘inadequate’ rating from Ofsted, with…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Crossrail apprentices get royal treatment as Queen pays visit

The Queen was presented with a plaque by Crossrail apprentices this week to commemorate the new railway being named…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Rebrand for British WorldSkills organisers

The organisation that oversees the selection process for the British WorldSkills team is dropping its old name. It is…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


News

Sixth form college academisation ‘pressure’

> Principal breaks silence on ‘very short’ timescales for DfE applications > Government defends linking opportunity to area review…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Merger approved by Boles before college ‘runs out of cash’

A cash-strapped Cumbria sixth form college has been given the green light by Skills Minister Nick Boles to merge with…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Around 200 colleges hit with joint UCU and Unison strike

Around 200 colleges are expect to be hit with strike action today (February 24), as members of the University…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

New chief executive unveiled for Sixth Form Colleges Association

The current operational director at the Schools, Students and Teachers Network (SSAT) Bill Watkin has been appointed as the…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

SFA will stop subcontracting of loan-funded provision

Provision paid for by advanced learner loans will have to be delivered directly by lead providers from the start…

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Notices of concern more than double in wake of funding CRISIS

The number of notices of concern issued to FE providers by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has more than…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford

Must read

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
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