News

Recruitment drive as ESFA cracks down on compliance

The Education and Skills Funding Agency is bolstering its compliance and prevention teams amid high-profile cases of provider failure...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Meet the FE Commissioner’s new cost-cutting boss

Controversial minister Lord Agnew has been given responsibility for a new college financial warning system, as well as oversight...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

‘Colleges still running out of money’, claims top ESFA official

A top director in the Education and Skills Funding Agency has warned that colleges are “still running out of...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Providers urge ESFA to U-turn on plans to collect delivered off-the-job training hours

The Association of Employment and Learning Providers is lobbying government to U-turn on its proposal to introduce yet another...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Lord Agnew to help with FE and skills brief at DfE

Yet another minister in the Department for Education has been given some responsibility for further education. It was announced...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Welsh college rapped by Ofsted

A Welsh college is to be suspended from recruiting apprentices in England after Ofsted found it making ‘insufficient progress’...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

The ‘Forgotten Third’ deserve the dignity of a new type of qualification

In spite of decades of curriculum and qualifications reform, a third of 16-year-olds in England are not awarded a...

Billy Camden
Roy Blatchford
News

Banks given £201m to clear college debts during area reviews

Colleges had over £200 million of bank debt paid off by the Treasury during the post-16 area reviews, but...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

College to stay open as usual during ‘mammoth’ 15-day strike

Nottingham College has said it will be open as usual during 15-days of strike action by the University and...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden