News Your FE & skills General Election questions answered — part two: Labour The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats have all come in for grilling with a host of questions from… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Your FE & skills General Election questions answered — part one: The Conservatives The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats have all come in for grilling with a host of questions from… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News College governors’ code updated with ‘clearer and shorter’ guidance on financial risk management The Association of Colleges (AoC) took on board more than 160 consultation responses before updating its new code of… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Lib Dems pledge 16 to 19 funding boost in budget protection plan Funding for 16 to 19-year-olds would receive a boost under Liberal Democrat plans to budget for rising learner numbers,… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Second groundbreaking UTC to shut as student numbers fail to increase and Ofsted sees lack of improvement Student numbers, financial challenges, staffing capacity and a second consecutive Ofsted inspection blow were said to be behind plans… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News UTCs, apprenticeships and destination data central to Tory manifesto plans for FE The Conservatives will put a University Technical College (UTC) “within reach of every city” and increase the use of… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Bogus United Nations invoice caught by eagle-eyed staff Providers have been warned to be vigilant after another attempted scam hit the sector. Andy Cole (pictured), principal of… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News London federation learns from Middlesbrough ‘failure’ Three London colleges have announced plans to form a federation in a bid to combat budget cuts. Newham College,… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Employers back skills pilot after damning review Businesses have called on the government to keep faith with its employer ownership of skills pilot despite a damning… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Euro Commission ‘oversteps the mark’ on learner info The European Commission has been accused by a civil rights group of “overstepping the mark” in making FE learners… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Labour’s apprenticeship scrap plan fails to make manifesto Labour remains committed to scrapping level two apprenticeships despite the absence of the pledge from the party’s education manifesto,… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y News Staff with ‘access’ to young learners not checked by bosses A Leicester-based training provider has been slapped with an inadequate grading by Ofsted after failing to carry out criminal… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Newer 1 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 650 651 652 812 Older 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 4d Jessica Hill 4d 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 4w Jessica Hill 4w 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 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Next 3 stories 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo
