News

Problems with SFA salary info

Two colleges have told how Skills Funding Agency accounts showing what they spent on salary for the post of...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Ex-teacher charged with 28 sex offences

A teacher who worked at Basingstoke College of Technology (BCoT) has been charged with dozens of sex offences, including...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Birmingham Met to axe up to 250 jobs

As many as 250 jobs are set to be axed at Birmingham Metropolitan College — a move branded “catastrophic”...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Was your college among best or worst success rates performers?

The Skills Funding Agency’s national success rates were published this month — and for the first time ever were...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Coalition duo go separate FE ways with manifestos

Yellow and blue went head to head as the two coalition partners made their policy pitches to the nation....

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Closure of third-full UTC prompts wider review call

College sector leaders have called for a review of the drive for more University Technical Colleges (UTC) after one...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Profiles

Mark Farrar, chief executive, Association of Accounting Technicians

The stereotypical picture of an accountant, says Mark Farrar, chief executive of the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), is...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Where is the joined-up working that was promised?

Eight months after the Children and Families Act came into place with the aim of better meeting the needs...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

How does the next government grow and fund a big increase in apprenticeships?

The political appetite for apprenticeships has never been greater, and neither has the pressure on funding — so where...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter