Author: Billy Camden

A training provider is offering a reward of just under £30,000 for simply adding their data on achieved learners to a government funding claim. Taking up the emailed offer of a “cohort of achieved learners” from City Gateway, a charity that has trained disadvantaged young people in the London for eight years, would be a […]

Ofsted has apologised and overturned a provisional ‘inadequate’ judgement after a college complained when inspectors alleged that student safety was at risk. Scarborough Sixth Form College was left concerned after a two-day visit in October. Its provisional rating was a grade four, which FE Week understands related specifically to safeguarding. Principal Phil Rumsey lodged a […]

Michelle Donelan has been appointed as the new universities minister – and has not ruled out also taking on the FE and skills brief. The MP for Chippenham has been covering for Kemi Badenoch as children and families parliamentary under secretary of state, with some responsibilities for FE, while she has been on maternity leave. […]

Gavin Williamson is to stay on as education secretary following a post-Brexit ministerial reshuffle. However, it’s not known whether the MP for South Staffordshire will keep the FE and skills brief he has held since his appointment last July. Many calls, including from Conservative MPs, have been made for prime minister Boris Johnson to appoint […]

The director of George Osborne’s Northern Powerhouse Partnership has called for skills policy to be fully devolved from Whitehall, claiming the government has “failed” to deliver the system the north needs. Henri Murison, speaking at the launch of the Northern Skills Network in Leeds today, pinned the failure on the Department for Education’s officials and […]

A consultation on plans to remove funding for more than 5,000 legacy qualifications at level three and below has been launched by the Department for Education. Those at risk are courses that are currently not being studied by any learners or have cohorts of fewer than 100, and are coming to the end of their […]

“Angry” sixth form college staff will hit the picket line tomorrow as they step up their protest against government funding cuts in the build up to next month’s budget. National Education Union members from 34 sixth form colleges will be taking strike action. Two further strikes will take place 27 February and 10 March. The […]

A college is bidding to stay on the T-level programme and prevent another cold spot from opening up after it received a grade three from Ofsted. Nottingham College was inspected last month, its first since being created from a merger of New College Nottingham and Central College Nottingham in 2017. It is scheduled to deliver […]

Colleges are providing “good quality” FE despite facing “significant cost pressures” and if the sector is to survive “as is” the Treasury needs to pump more funding into it, according to new Department for Education research. In what appears to be a pre-budget pitch to the chancellor, a new report states that there is “nothing […]