Long read

The other King’s college

Jessica Hill visits King Charles’ Dumfries House and Highgrove House estates where the King’s Foundation teaches heritage courses ranging…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Skills reform

NEETs top McFadden’s DWP skills agenda

The work and pensions secretary wants jobcentres to offer training as a ‘springboard to better futures’

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
EuroSkills 2025

Debrief from Denmark

Team UK brought six medals home from Denmark

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Apprenticeships

‘World-class’ government apprenticeship app flops

Users hit with errors in government £1.2m app for apprentices

Shane Chowen
Bill Curtis
Colleges

Best-in-class social action champions wanted for FE awards

Nominations for the Good for Me Good for FE awards 2025 are now open

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Colleges

Staff pay recommendation will be unaffordable for ‘many’ colleges, say AoC

Colleges with significant adult provision will find it ‘impossible’ to give 4 per cent pay rise

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel


SEND, Skills reform

MPs demand funding and transport guarantees for FE SEND students

Post-16 SEND students are ‘rarely prioritised’ says education committee

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Higher education

OfS to end TEF opt-out for colleges and small providers

Office for Students also considers adding apprenticeship outcomes to its quality measures

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Careers

Careers service shake-up ‘rebrand, not reform’, say MPs

The government wants Jobcentres to offer more employment support and careers advice

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Skills reform

Confirmed: Skills England moved to DWP from today

Skills England CEO says move “really makes sense”

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges, T Levels

T Level funding to be lagged from 2027

Switch will end the use of estimated student numbers but keep in-year reconciliation

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Ofsted, Training Providers

Jarvis Training collapse followed damning Ofsted verdict

Training quality had “declined significantly” since the last inspection

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

Must read

16-19

Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden

Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE

A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms

The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Shane Chowen
Qualifications

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
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