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College job over after school achieves grade one

Hull College has given up its sponsorship of a formerly failing local school having guided it to top marks…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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FE Commissioner praise following revisits

The FE Commissioner has praised progress being made at two colleges following revisits. Dr David Collins checked up on…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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High profile football referee honoured at old college

Former international football referee and Rotherham College alumni Howard Webb has been recognised by the Association of Colleges (AoC)…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Ofsted denies ‘jumping gun’ with Bolton College GCSE criticism

Ofsted has denied “jumping the gun” on an impending funding condition after a report appeared to criticise a college…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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UTCs take eight spaces in list of 50 worst for absence

Eight University Technical Colleges (UTCs) have been listed among England’s worst providers for overall absence. The Department for Education…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Prime Minister lays out apprenticeships as ‘first priority’ but sector awaits policy details

The creation of more apprenticeship starts is the “first priority” out of legislation announced in the Queen’s Speech, the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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Government reviews FE scrutiny info

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has launched a review of the data it publishes on FE…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Ofsted scrapping of graded lesson observations ‘right’

Ofsted’s decision to scrap graded lesson observations for FE inspections has been described as the “right way to go”…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Pearson stops second distance provision linked to AL

Pearson has stopped registering higher national certificate (HNC) distance learning students at a second general FE college delivering the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Key founder college quits Gazelle amid membership review

Gazelle has been dealt a major blow with news that a key founding college has announced it is “no…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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ETF sets out stall for new professional body

The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) has launched a new professional membership body for FE practitioners. The creation of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

Must read

16-19

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE

A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
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