News Third GFE college steps in to take an academy on from struggling chain A third general FE college is set to take over a school whose academy chain sponsor has been hit with… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News A4e gives assurance that fraudsters ‘don’t work for us anymore’ A4e chief executive Andrew Dutton has revealed that none of the staff who ripped off a Department for Work… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News British Gas cutting flow of 16 to 18 apprentices British Gas failed to deliver a massive 89 per cent of its £2.5m initial allocation for 16 to 18… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Confusion as official websites return different apprenticeship results Concerns that two official apprenticeship websites could be causing confusion have emerged with identical vacancy searches returning vastly different… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Principal says borrowing to blame for finances issue A Basingstoke sixth form college was today expected to present a draft financial recovery plan to the Education Funding… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Value for money question on Gazelle spending ‘answered by memberships’ Gazelle chief executive Fintan Donohue has said that it’s for to colleges to decide if his organisation delivered value… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Certificate conman gets 80 hours’ unpaid work An online conman who sold fake City & Guilds and OCR certificates from his Darlington cul-de-sac home has been… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News UPDATED: Indefinite strike woes set to hit for second time in a year UPDATE – Monday, January 19, 2015 A drawn-out strike could be averted and one of the most long running… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Internet block on LGBT websites ‘sends out wrong message’ A Midland college has been warned its internet software was sending out the “wrong message” after it blocked learners… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News FE colleges get £700k windfall for higher ed collaboration More than £700,000 will be handed shared among 74 FE colleges to encourage young people to progress into higher… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Local authority one of just three to win a glowing Ofsted report A Midland council is celebrating after its adult education provision was rated outstanding across the board by Ofsted. Wolverhampton… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Finance directors targeted in scam College finance directors have been targeted in a bailiff scam involving a chilling “long series” of phonecalls with the… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Newer 1 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 820 Older Must read Colleges, Long read 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 1mo Jessica Hill 1mo 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Next 3 stories 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 3mo Billy Camden 3mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo 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 4mo Anviksha Patel 4mo