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Anti-terrorism website launches for FE and skills providers

The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) today 0fficially unveiled a new website to help FE and skills providers stop…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Croydon unveils new free school plans

Croydon College has revealed its revamped free school proposal in its second attempt to open its own secondary school….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Functional Skills first reveals just 63pc achievement

Nearly 40 per cent of under 19 Functional Skills (FS) enrolments at general FE and tertiary colleges and independent…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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‘Achievement’ for levels two and three down since 2010

Level two and three “total achievement” levels for people aged 19 and above have declined over the last five…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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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

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
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