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Closure of third-full UTC prompts wider review call

College sector leaders have called for a review of the drive for more University Technical Colleges (UTC) after one…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Coalition parties let manifesto differences get between them

Funding increases, University Technical Colleges (UTCs) near every English city, a commission on funding for lifelong learning and millions…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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SFAsteps in for campus revamp go ahead at cash-strapped college

A cash-strapped East Midlands college’s plans for a multimillion pound campus revamp have been saved after the Skills Funding…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Coalition duo go separate FE ways with manifestos

Yellow and blue went head to head as the two coalition partners made their policy pitches to the nation….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Was your college among best or worst success rates performers?

The Skills Funding Agency’s national success rates were published this month — and for the first time ever were…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Principal ‘on leave’ after staff no confidence votes

New College Stamford was remaining tight-lipped about the position of its under-fire principal April Carrol after staff passed a…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Ex-teacher charged with 28 sex offences

A teacher who worked at Basingstoke College of Technology (BCoT) has been charged with dozens of sex offences, including…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Problems with SFA salary info

Two colleges have told how Skills Funding Agency accounts showing what they spent on salary for the post of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Lib Dems join apprenticeship numbers race with pledge to double number of businesses with apprentices

The Liberal Democrats have joined the apprenticeship numbers race, matching Tory plans to create 3m starts in the next…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Councils fail to promote sector’s SEN provision

Councils are facing a call to better promote FE provision for learners with special educational needs (SEN) after a…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Your FE & skills General Election questions answered — part three: Liberal Democrats

The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats have all come in for grilling with a host of questions from…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Birmingham Met to axe up to 250 jobs

As many as 250 jobs are set to be axed at Birmingham Metropolitan College — a move branded “catastrophic”…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

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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