News

Ofsted watch: Poor week for multiple new apprenticeship providers

New apprenticeship providers came in for some stinging criticism this week, with three found to be making ‘insufficient progress’...

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Revealed: 54 colleges and providers chosen for second wave of Taking Teaching Further funding

The colleges and training providers chosen to recruit new FE teachers and improve links with industry for the second...

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Post-18 education review: The 9 main recommendations for FE

The long-awaited review into post-18 education and funding has been released today, with the publication of a 216-page report....

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Serial entrepreneur’s new provider fails to impress Ofsted

A new provider run by a well-known entrepreneur has been criticised by Ofsted after inspectors found it making ‘insufficient...

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Bulletin, Movers and Shakers

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 282

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Joanne Sherrington, Interim principal, Craven College Start date: May 2019...

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Opinion

Insolvency could have been avoided had the ESFA spotted Hadlow College’s crippling loans in 2017

This week the government published the FE Commissioner’s Hadlow College findings and recommendations, based on four visits in February....

Fraser Whieldon
Nick Linford
News

‘We were genuinely shocked by what we found’

The FE Commissioner, Richard Atkins, was due to visit West Kent and Ashford College following their Ofsted grade three...

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

Former college leadership and ESFA financial oversight in the dock

A damning FE Commissioner report has revealed how Hadlow Group’s leaders concealed the truth of its financial position until...

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
News

College testing insolvency regime seeks speedy buyer for park and unfinished mining museum

Scandal-hit Hadlow College has confirmed it is looking to sell its £40 million visitor and business park, following the...

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon