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25 April 2026

College faces £10,000 replacement bus bill over train strikes

A college in Sussex is bearing the full brunt of staff strikes at Southern Rail, having to shell out up to £10,000 on replacement buses while the dispute continues. Train drivers from the ASLEF union began industrial action today and will continue the walkout tomorrow and Friday, over a row to do with driver-only trains. […]

If DfE is listening it must act now

Employers are telling a large and successful provider of 16-18 engineering apprentices they will switch to adults once the funding reforms kick in. Most 16-18 frameworks see a significant rate cut from May, and for the first time employers with 50 or more staff will have to pay for them. Then there are the new […]

Outstanding colleges might now expect a visit from Ofsted

Ofsted seems to be heading for a U-turn on a controversial policy that exempts providers rated ‘outstanding’ from routine inspection. FE Week revealed in November that two colleges – Bridgwater and Taunton College in Somerset, and Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridgeshire – had not been inspected for a decade. Since then, another college […]

Thousands competing in AoC Sport National Championships 2017

Up to 2,000 elite college sporting stars will travel to Nottingham in April to compete in the AoC Sport National Championships 2017. Throughout the autumn term students across the country have been battling away in regional heats to qualify for the 39th annual championships – the pinnacle event in the sporting calendar for AoC Sport […]

FE Week supplement review 2016

Over the course of this year FE Week produced a whopping 172 pages of content across 10 supplements covering all of the key sector talking points of 2016. Ranging from the AAC, AoC and AELP conferences, to The Skills Show and EuroSkills, below we have brought all of our supplements into one place for our […]

Week left to register for Brathay apprenticeship challenge

There is just one week to go for employers and training providers to enter the sixth annual Brathay Apprentice Challenge. Teams of nine apprentices can enter the competition which will see them undertake a series of hands-on work-related challenges to develop new skills, while promoting the benefits of apprenticeships. Entries can come from a single […]

Team UK’s golden success at EuroSkills closing ceremony

Team UK is bringing home two golds, one silver, two bronze and eight medallions of excellence from EuroSkills 2016 Gothenburg. The haul places Team UK ninth out of 28 in the overall medal table. Landscape gardening duo Adam Ferguson, aged 20, and Will Burberry, 20, were joined by welder Josh Peek (pictured above), 20, in […]

Meet Team UK competitors ahead of EuroSkills medal ceremony

Team UK will tonight find out which of their members have claimed ultimate EuroSkills glory as gold, silver and bronze medals are handed out at the closing ceremony in Gothenburg. The group of 22 competitors travelled to Sweden for the skills competition earlier this week and have competed against the best in Europe over the […]