Author: Billy Camden

High levels of management and health apprenticeships are a “mismatch” compared to the government’s industrial strategy and needs to be addressed “urgently”, Amanda Spielman has said. In Ofsted’s annual stock take of education, the chief inspector revealed that performance in the FE sector has “remained static this year”, but the “rapid growth” of apprenticeships is […]

Sector bodies have hit back at Ofsted’s chief inspector for “encouraging government” to restrict course choices made by colleges and employers. One leader said putting restrictions on how firms can spend their cash risks “further reducing training opportunities in lots of workplaces”, while another warned that Whitehall “choosing winners” has a “very chequered history”. The […]

The Social Mobility Commission has urged government to create a “what works” centre to advise on where the FE sector needs extra investment. The plan would cost £20 million over the next five years and the centre would be embedded within an existing organisation. It would “translate the best available evidence and test a variety […]

An investigation has been launched after betting companies were “wrongly provided access” to an education database containing the information of 28 million children. The massive breach was revealed through a Sunday Times investigation which found the Learning Records Service had been accessed by data intelligence firm GB Group – whose clients include 32Red and Betfair […]

Tributes have been paid to college lecturer and University and College Union president-elect Nita Sanghera, after she died last week. The union said Sanghera passed away following a short illness on 16 January, adding that it was a “tragedy that we have lost her”. She worked as an Access to HE lecturer at Bournville College […]

A college is battling Ofsted to prevent the publication of a grade four report after inspectors claimed to have found serious safeguarding failures. Shrewsbury Colleges Group, which teaches more than 9,000 students mostly aged 16 to 18, is set to receive an ‘inadequate’ rating following an inspection in November. But the college has insisted the […]

The top ten highest college salaries have dropped by an average of more than £50,000 after six of the principals left, an FE Week investigation has found. The single biggest cut totalled £136,000 – from £294,000 to £158,000 – after a change in leadership at North Hertfordshire College. Of the four colleges where the principal […]

Further education is a “ticking time bomb” and more colleges will have to close campuses unless government gets serious about investment in the sector, the boss of Cornwall College has said. John Evans made the comments in an interview with FE Week after news broke this week that his group was to sell-off its 35-year-old […]