Author: Fraser Whieldon

A much-loved adult residential college has announced it will remain standalone and has fought off a £2.4 million funding clawback from the government. Northern College became locked in a legal dispute with the Education and Skills Funding Agency earlier this year over funding for its residential provision, while it was struggling to meet an adult […]

The pass rates for this summer’s GCSE maths and English resits have risen on 2020, new figures out today have revealed. The proportion of males and females aged 17 and over passing English has risen by 2.8 per cent compared to 2020. This year, 42.3 per cent received a grade 4 (equivalent to a C) […]

A college has appointed a sector veteran as interim principal for the second time after its permanent principal left last week. Previously the principal of Dudley College, Lowell Williams ran Hull College on a temporary basis from January until Bradford College’s former deputy chief executive Chris Malish started in April. However, after the college announced […]

The proportion of top A-level grades handed out this year has increased to more than 44 per cent following the cancellation of exams and switch to teacher assessment grades. The record-breaking results saw 37 per cent of all A-level students in England get three As or better – more than double the 17.9 per cent […]

Welcome to FE Week‘s liveblog of A-level and level 3 results day 2021! UPDATE: The live blog is now closed. Sorry if your pictures didn’t make it in – we’ve been inundated with stories and there simply hasn’t been time to add them all. We really appreciate you sending them so thank you. Congratulations to all […]

Education secretary Gavin Williamson has said teachers’ “hard work” in producing grades for their students this year has “earned the trust and admiration of the whole country”. In a letter thanking teachers ahead of A-level results day tomorrow, Williamson said teachers have given students “their passports to the future”. It follows Dr Mary Bousted, National Education Union […]

A college’s first permanent leader in nearly two years has left after six months, owing to difficulty working away from his family. Hull College has today announced Chris Malish, formerly deputy chief executive at Bradford College, left last week after only having started in April. The hunt is now on for the college’s sixth leader, and […]

Ofqual has confirmed teacher-assessed grades are to end and exams will return next year for vocational and technical qualifications. But awarding bodies will be allowed to adapt assessments in 2021/22 for qualifications like functional skills and T Levels, in light of how Covid-19 has affected students’ learning, the regulator has said. What adaptations could be […]

Colleges are calling on the government to move to an “in-year funding model” after their membership body projected an extra 90,000 students will be in their classrooms by 2024/25. The Association of Colleges has today demanded the government provide an automatic guarantee of additional funding for extra 16-to-18-year-olds recruited each year, and said the Treasury […]