Author: FE Week Reporter

Lewisham Southwark College students’ union president Shakira Martin was today elected as the next National Union of Students (NUS) vice president for FE. Trainee teacher Ms Martin (pictured) was elected by delegates at the NUS national conference in Liverpool this afternoon beating Sheffield College students’ union and NUS national executive committee member Amy Smith and […]

The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) today 0fficially unveiled a new website to help FE and skills providers stop learners falling prey to radical terror groups. The website, officially unveiled this morning but launched on Friday (April 17), is called Prevent for Further Education and Training: Complying with the Prevent Duty. It contains a wide […]

Nearly 40 per cent of under 19 Functional Skills (FS) enrolments at general FE and tertiary colleges and independent learning providers (ILPs) failed to achieve their qualification last academic year, it has been revealed. The figure is based on the Skills Funding Agency success rates tables, published this month, which for the first time included […]

Croydon College has revealed its revamped free school proposal in its second attempt to open its own secondary school. The London-based college’s proposals were rejected in March in the last round of free school applications after the Department for Education (DfE) said that its plans “required more detail”. The college’s new proposal for the school, […]

New College Stamford was remaining tight-lipped about the position of its under-fire principal April Carrol after staff passed a second vote of no confidence in her. A University and College Union (UCU) spokesperson said that around 80 members of staff passed the first no confidence vote through a show of hands during a meeting at […]

Level two and three “total achievement” levels for people aged 19 and above have declined over the last five years, a report charting the success of government policies has found. The government introduced ‘business plans’ for each department in 2010 featuring a series of ‘impact indicators’ that were supposed to help the public keep tabs […]

Councils are facing a call to better promote FE provision for learners with special educational needs (SEN) after a survey revealed just one in eight families were told about options outside local authority control. The results of the survey run by the National Star College, a specialist FE institution in Gloucestershire, revealed that 88 per […]