Author: Billy Camden

A team of the country’s most skilled young people have been selected to represent the UK at EuroSkills 2016, but what is its purpose and what benefits can it have on our competitors? Billy Camden investigates Twenty of the country’s top apprentices and learners will be going for gold at EuroSkills Gothenburg 2016, after being […]

Twenty of the country’s most skilled young people have been selected to represent the UK at EuroSkills Gothenburg 2016. Those chosen for Team UK, which was announced today, will go for gold against the most talented young people from more than 30 European countries in more than 35 different skill areas ranging from engineering and […]

  The government should delay the devolution of the adult education budge, because the Skills Funding Agency has still not decided how the system will work for providers that cross regional boundaries, the Association of Colleges has said. Provider groups based in multiple regions have been lobbying the SFA for different treatment under the now-imminent […]

A college is preparing to cut ties with two academies currently under its control — claiming that it is no longer “feasible” to sponsor them. Oldham College will relinquish control of the nearby Waterhead and Stoneleigh academies at the start of the summer break, and has blamed the move away from vocational education in schools […]

The boss of Hull College has been accused of trying to bully a member of the shadow cabinet for supporting a staff strike action. Karl Turner, who is the MP for Kingston upon Hull and the shadow attorney general, joined “angry and demoralised” Hull College workers on the picket line this week in a row […]

“Angry and demoralised” staff at Hull College have voted to go on strike in a row over pay, and a controversial new lesson observation system. The University and College Union (UCU) said the college had offered staff a 0.7 per cent pay rise last September, and had also promised to make changes to unannounced lesson […]

Schools could soon be financially sanctioned if they sign students up to inappropriate A-level courses that they later abandon, Skills Minister Nick Boles has warned. He made the comments at a parliamentary sub-committee meeting on education, skills and the economy on Wednesday (April 27), when he admitted concern that there is no current downside to […]

Last weekend saw more than 1,800 athletes from 137 different colleges travel to Tyne and Wear for the 38th AoC Sport National Championships. The pinnacle event in the sporting calendar for AoC Sport member colleges inspired many passionate and high quality performances at first-rate venues, as FE Week reporter and football and golf fanatic Billy […]