News Toni Fazaeli announces retirement from IfL chief role Institute for Learning (IfL) chief executive Toni Fazaeli has announced plans for her retirement after six years in the… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News New £2.9m research centre for adult literacy and numeracy The government is investing £2.9m in a new research centre that will focus on improving adult literacy and numeracy…. FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Tributes paid to ‘FE warrior’ Mary Rimington MBE Tributes have been paid to the former deputy principal of City and Islington College after she died from cancer…. FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News ‘Students mean income for schools’ – AoC warning as report criticises career advice Schools should think of the good of their students over the income benefits of keeping learners on after 16,… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Company fined after apprentice’s hand crushed A company has been fined after an apprentice’s hand was crushed in machinery. The young man, who was 18… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Exeter principal Richard Atkins to be new AoC president Exeter College principal Richard Atkins has been unveiled as the next president of the Association of College (AoC) after… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Universities Minister wants more higher education courses at colleges Universities Minister David Willetts wants FE colleges to offer more higher education courses. He has given the Higher Education… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News College staff and students lobby Parliament over FE funding cuts College staff were joined by students as they conducted a mass lobby of Parliament over the future of FE… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Pilot scheme for FE English GCSE teaching enhancement course to start in mid-April A pilot scheme will soon be launched for a training course preparing FE lecturers for a massive expansion in… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Former deputy Lorna Fitzjohn to replace Coffey in Ofsted FE lead role Ofsted’s former deputy director of further education and skills has been given the director’s role after Matthew Coffey was… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Mixed reaction to new requirement for learner outcome data in individual learner records Sector leaders gave a mixed welcome to new requirements for providers to collect data on what happens to learners… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Hancock unveils 77 new tech levels Skills minister Matthew Hancock used a speech to a jobs and skills forum in London to announce 77 new… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Newer 1 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 816 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 3w Jessica Hill 3w 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 2mo Jessica Hill 2mo 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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