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 News New organisation given control of WorldSkills UK and the Skills Show Control over WorldSkills UK and the Skills Show has been pulled together under a single organisation. Find a Future,… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News £100m classroom satellite thermostat plan a “waste of money” NB – this article was originally published as an April Fools story. Plans to spend £100m installing satellite-linked thermostats… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Lambeth College staff to strike over hours and pay Staff at Lambeth College will go on strike tomorrow (Tuesday) over proposed changes to pay and conditions, the University… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Bright puts up to 20 members of staff on ‘gardening leave’ Troubled provider Bright Assessing has allegedly put several members of its staff on “gardening leave”. FE Week has seen… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News What has happened to 14 to 19 vocational education? Three years ago this month, the Wolf Report on the future of vocational education for 14 to 19-year-olds was… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News Traineeship figures ‘deeply disappointing’ Figures showing that an average of just 127 people started on the government’s new youth unemployment traineeship scheme every… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y News Indies could face FoI ‘requirements’ Independent learning providers could become subject to Freedom of Information (FoI) Act “requirements” under government proposals. Firms that “carry… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Newer 1 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 724 725 726 727 819 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 3w Jessica Hill 3w 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 3mo Anviksha Patel 3mo 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
