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13 April 2026

Author: Billy Camden

Revealed: The winners in the £120m Institutes of Technology wave 2 competition

The names of the next nine colleges and universities to develop new Institutes of Technology have been named. The winners include six colleges and three universities who will split a £120 million capital funding pot. This is the second wave of the IoT programme, which are described as “unique collaborations” between employers, colleges and universities […]

DfE launches £150m capital fund for wave four T Level providers

Colleges and training providers in the fourth wave of the T Level rollout are being invited to bid for a slice of £150 million to help upgrade their facilities. The capital fund, reopened today, is being made available to those that will offer the new technical qualifications from 2023. It follows previous funds that totalled […]

A class of their own: The school that enrolled one T Level student

A school handed £1.2 million for a new six-classroom, purpose-built block to teach the government’s flagship T Levels has recruited just one student, FE Week can reveal. Salesian School, in Surrey, began delivering the education and childcare route this September after a one-year deferral that was blamed on Covid-19. It planned to recruit 15 learners. […]

Ofsted’s 2020/21 annual report: FE and skills hit ‘particularly hard’ by Covid

Ofsted has today published its annual stocktake of education for the 2020/21 academic year, which saw inspection activity mostly put on hold due to Covid-19. But reflecting on the year, the watchdog says the further education and skills sector was hit “particularly hard” by the pandemic. “Many apprentices found themselves furloughed, or out of work […]

New shadow ed sec to push Zahawi on Omicron plans

The new shadow education secretary has requested an “urgent briefing” from her opposite number Nadhim Zahawi about how government will respond to the Omicron variant’s impact on education. Bridget Phillipson was appointed on Monday to replace Kate Green in a reshuffle by Sir Keir Starmer of his frontbench team. In her first interview, she told […]