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More college takeovers possible for academy chain

The Department for Education (DfE) has not ruled out another college intervention to take on a school from troubled…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Call for more powers to track 16 to 18s

Local authorities “need more legal powers to ensure partners share vital information” in tracking the education and training status…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Leadership issues under the Fetl research spotlight

The Further Education Trust for Leadership (Fetl) has announced the four winners in its first wave of fellowship grants…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Digital skills duo told to drop Code College title

The founders of the new National College for Digital Skills have dropped plans to be called Code College after…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Outstanding RAF training

The RAF’s apprenticeship scheme has seen it become just the second employer provider to be rated outstanding across the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Lambeth retains grade three Ofsted rating despite strikes

Lambeth College has retained its grade three Ofsted rating despite inspectors visiting amid long-running industrial action that ended with…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


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AoC hits back at ex-Ofsted director’s claim colleges are ‘frankly, rubbish’

Association of Colleges (AoC) boss Martin Doel (above) has leapt to the defence of his members after a former…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Planting seeds of inspiration in Sky

The Sky Academy invited FE Week reporter Paul Offord to look around its new Careers Lab that will give…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Ofsted’s falling standards flag ‘insecure’

Ofsted’s system for flagging up falling standards has been described as offering an “insecure comfort blanket” after two formerly…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Ten pc online course content edict ‘more of a vague target’

The government will not be enforcing a recommendation from the Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (Feltag) that 10…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
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Ofsted welcomes fellow education watchdogs from across Europe

Ofsted national director for FE and skills Lorna Fitzjohn today launched the first conference for inspectors from across Europe…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Accounts committee chair warns DfE has ‘little understanding of the impact of existing initiatives and programmes’ for 16 to 18-year-olds

Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge (pictured) has warned that the Department for Education (DfE) has “little understanding of…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford

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