Author: Billy Camden

A troubled college group that has been run by an interim chief executive for nearly a year has appointed an Ofsted inspector as its new permanent boss. John Evans (pictured) will take the reins from Dr Elaine McMahon at The Cornwall College Group during the autumn term. She has held the position in an interim […]

West Kent and Ashford College has been put into education administration, making it the second college to fall under the insolvency regime. At the High Court today, Insolvency and Companies Court judge Sally Barber granted the petition put forward by the Department for Education at the request of WKAC. The Ofsted grade three college will […]

Students would only be able to apply to universities after seeing their A-level and other qualification results under a Labour government. The party has today pledged to “radically reform” higher education admissions by scrapping offers based on predicted grades. Labour said the current system, where college and sixth form student applications are made by January […]

The UK’s data watchdog has sided with FE Week in our long-running freedom of information battle with Highbury College to obtain expense claims made on the principal’s corporate card. A request for this information spanning the past five academic years was put in 10 months ago, but the college refused to comply and cited section […]

Questions from an entire Edexcel A-level maths paper were circulated on social media before the exam this year, rather than just a small extract as was originally thought, Pearson has admitted. Edexcel’s parent company also confirmed that 78 students who sat the exam are having their results withheld while it investigates the leak, which has […]

A former sector leader has hit back at an ex-special adviser to education secretary Damian Hinds after the latter said colleges are “too complex to run”. David Harbourne, a former chief executive of The Edge Foundation and ex-senior official at the old Skills Funding Agency, accused Jon Yates of being a “snowflake who can’t stand […]

The UK’s public spending watchdog is preparing to launch a value for money review on the management of colleges’ financial sustainability. Comptroller and auditor general Gareth Davies (pictured), who heads up the National Audit Office, revealed this in a letter to Conservative MP Margot James, who had asked him to investigate Birmingham Metropolitan College following […]

Trying to achieve parity of esteem between technical and academic education is “totally pointless and impossible”, a former special adviser to the education secretary has said. Damian Hinds made striving for parity between the two routes one his top priorities while heading up the Department for Education from January 2018 to July 2019. He said in a […]