Students

It’s the good, the bat and the snugly this Volunteers’ Week

Colleges showcase student community champions

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Colleges

Teacher sacked in trans-student name row can appeal

Tribunal case highlights urgency for ‘definitive’ national policy on gender identity for colleges

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Apprenticeships

Most adult apprentices continue English and maths after exemption

60% of on-programme 19+ apprentices are carrying on with functional skills study

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

Colleges seek merger to capitalise on devolution

‘Powerful’ new group to be created next July

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education

Hasta la Prevista as training provider suffers liquidation

The company was sold to an employee ownership trust four years ago

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

National 16-19 funding rate boosted to £5,105 in 2025-26

Rates for T Levels, disadvantaged and English and maths funding are also rising

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


News

Free meals extended to all from universal credit households

Scheme to be expanded for 2026-27 academic year

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Colleges

Deputy Jones to succeed CEO Booth at Luminate

Change in leadership at major college group will happen in the new year

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Principal of cash-strapped college to retire

Decade-serving boss says decision to leave Hampshire college was ‘not made lightly’

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

FE inquiry: College designations, postcode lotteries and student poverty

Sector leaders make the case for reclassifying SEND colleges, student maintenance support and avoiding dangerous devolution

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Apprenticeships, Ofsted

SeaRegs Training makes waves with first Ofsted ‘outstanding’

Plymouth-based marine apprenticeship provider charts course to top rating

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Apprenticeships

Phillipson: Scrapping level 7 apprenticeships won’t harm skills supply

Education secretary also reveals application process for Technical Excellence Colleges to open this term

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

Must read

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
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