Colleges Exclusive College set for ‘inevitable’ court battle with football club after mediation falls flat The football club is suing the college for more than £160,000 Joshua Stein 2y Joshua Stein 2y Colleges College group wins High Court battle to sell closed campus The college had faced substantial opposition from the local council, campaigners and the local MP, Harriet Baldwin Joshua Stein 2y Joshua Stein 2y Colleges Long-awaited three-college Hampshire merger gets over the line Future of City College Southampton secured as it joins Fareham and Eastleigh College Anviksha Patel 2y Anviksha Patel 2y AEB, Apprenticeships, Ofsted Exclusive BCTG changes owner and ‘removes’ CEO after Ofsted battering Provider slammed for ‘lack of focus’ on quality following switch from subcontracting to direct delivery Billy Camden 2y Billy Camden 2y Apprenticeships Top apprenticeships civil servant to retire Kate Ridley-Moy will succeed Peter Mucklow as director of apprenticeships Anviksha Patel 2y Anviksha Patel 2y Exams Teenager arrested in exam board cyber attack investigation Police confirm 16-year-old boy has been arrested and bailed until later this year Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Training Providers Multimillion-pound competition launched for net zero training Training providers could get up to £1 million for retrofitting and insulation courses Joshua Stein 2y Joshua Stein 2y Training Providers Exclusive ‘Broken’ Skills Training UK employees won’t be paid in full this month AELP launches ‘save the skills system’ campaign following latest training provider closure Joshua Stein 2y Joshua Stein 2y Funding Revealed: ‘Front line’ boost to 16-19 funding Base rate to increase by an extra £111 per student Anviksha Patel 2y Anviksha Patel 2y Training Providers Exclusive Skills Training UK on brink of insolvency More than two hundred jobs are at risk if insolvency goes ahead Joshua Stein 2y Joshua Stein 2y Exams Leaders sound alarm as 2024 exam entry fees soar by up to 16.5% Biggest exam board increases prices of some of its most popular qualifications far higher than inflation Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Equality and diversity Keegan wants ‘extreme caution’ from colleges after trans advice delayed Education secretary claimed trans guidance delay was to ‘allow more time’ to speak with teachers, parents and lawyers FE Week Reporter 2y FE Week Reporter 2y Newer 1 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 802 Older Must read 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 2w Anviksha Patel 2w 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 4w Anviksha Patel 4w Adult education, ITPs Investigation Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets Josh Mellor 1mo Josh Mellor 1mo Next 3 stories Bootcamps, Skills bootcamps Exclusive Coding firm caught charging students for free bootcamps Ed tech provider ‘regretful’ after complaints and promises full refunds as bosses try to sue DfE over non-payments Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden and Frances Read 2mo Apprenticeships Entrepreneur chased for millions after apprenticeship collapse ESFA uncovers ‘fake’ taxi apprentices as liquidator reveals intercompany payments days after firm decided to shut Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo Adult education Exclusive Fury as DfE cuts adult education budgets Combined authorities told to expect reductions in ‘already deeply diminished’ adult skills funding Shane Chowen 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo
