News Skills Minister Nick Boles clears up area review question for sixth form college academies Skills Minister Nick Boles has outlined how post-16 education area reviews will provide the means for sixth form colleges… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Colleges in second wave of area reviews revealed Thirty four general FE colleges and 15 sixth form colleges (SFCs) will be involved in the second wave of… Alix Robertson 10y Alix Robertson 10y News ETF reveals who will run consultation on Functional Skills reforms The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) has appointed a Yorkshire-based firm to run a consultation with the National Institute… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News LIVE UPDATES: FE and skills sector reacts to Ofsted 2014/15 annual report The 2014/15 Ofsted annual report painted a picture of an FE and skills sector in which two years of… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News College performance ‘has declined’ – Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw’s annual report Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw has told how he has “seen the pace of improvement slow” in FE and… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Ofsted boss Sir Michael aims annual report fire at skills gap armed with nearly 180 FE and skills inspection results Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw today launches the 2014/15 annual report armed with the results of nearly 180… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Association of Colleges president John Widdowson and social mobility tsar Alan Milburn to address FE issues in Parliamentary hearings Association of Colleges president John Widdowson is due to tell MPs about how well the FE sector delivers higher… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Doel stepping down as Association of Colleges boss and moving to new FE professorship Martin Doel will be standing down as chief executive of the Association of Colleges (AoC) from September to move… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Ofsted inspectors report Marine Society College of the Sea ‘progress’ with new subcontractor A new subcontractor has helped grade-four distance learning provider Marine Society College of the Sea (MSCS) win Ofsted approval… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Local authorities come under the FE Week 2015/16 adult apprenticeship allocations spotlight The exclusive front page story of edition 154 on low levels of apprenticeship delivery among colleges promised more analysis…. Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in bid to keep London colleges apart Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has tried to warn City and Islington College governors against plans to merge with Westminster… Jude Burke 10y Jude Burke 10y News Funding threat hangs over providers who missed topslice declaration deadline The Skills Funding Agency was today looking into whether it would suspend funding for lead providers who flouted a… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Newer 1 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 821 Older Must read 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 4mo Billy Camden 4mo Colleges, FE Commissioner Exclusive 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo