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14 April 2026

Under threat area review colleges step in as local school shuts sixth form

Three Greater Manchester colleges subject to one of the government’s post-16 education area reviews have been called on to take learners from a local school after it suspended sixth form enrolment. Parents and carers of prospective Stockport Academy sixth formers have been told by the school that Stockport College, Aquinas College and Cheadle and Marple […]

MP Stella Creasy intervenes over mass brawl said to involve college learners

Former Labour deputy leadership candidate Stella Creasy has spoken out in defence of “innocent young people” after reports that college learners in her constituency had been involved in a mass street brawl. The Walthamstow MP, who got 26 per cent of votes to come second in her party’s deputy leadership race to Tom Watson last […]