Author: FE Week Reporter

The principal of an FE college is planning to take-on students left stranded after an academy trust dropped plans to open a specialist STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) school sixth form in Croydon. STEM Academy Trust had originally planned to open the school sixth-form at the former South Norwood police station, in Croydon, in […]

A singing science lecturer from Middlesbrough College is in the running for a $1m first-prize after making the top ten of finalists for a competition to find the best teacher in the world. Dr Richard Spencer is the only teacher in Europe to make the shortlist for the $1m Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize. The […]

A Labour government would protect 16 to 19 education as part of plans to protect the entire Department for Education (DfE) budget, party leader Ed Miliband has announced. Mr Miliband set out his party’s policies on education for the May 7 general election in a speech at lunchtime today at his old school — Haverstock, […]

The government should top-slice from skills and careers budgets to pay for coaches to help people out of low-paid jobs, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace) has said. In the first of its Policy Solutions reports, No Limits: From Getting By to Getting On, Niace calls for £100m of existing funding to be […]

Labour leader Ed Miliband is set to stand by his party’s controversial pledge to scrap apprenticeships of less than two years’ duration and below level three in a speech today. Mr Miliband will set out his vision for education if Labour wins the general election on May 7 in a speech this afternoon at his old […]

More than 70 MPs have written to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan calling for sixth form colleges to be exempted from paying VAT. The government’s controversial policy of continuing to charge sixth form colleges VAT while schools and academies are entitled to a refund of the 20 per cent tax has sparked a campaign by the […]