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Ofsted revisits grade three college amid signs of falling standards

A huge college rocked by a string of senior leadership departures that’s currently rated ‘requires improvement’ by Ofsted has...

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Area reviews mishandled early on, DfE research concludes

The way the government handled the first wave of the area reviews has been slammed by new research on...

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FE commissioner Richard Atkins: ‘Funding for FE is unfair’

The sector’s funding is “unfair”, the FE commissioner has told a parliamentary hearing. Richard Atkins was asked about the...

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Cornwall College gets £3.5m to help cashflow problems

A cash-strapped college has received £3.5 million in emergency funding, according to its accounts. Cornwall College Group received exceptional...

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Ofsted watch: Trio of providers lose ‘outstanding’ grades

Three providers have lost their ‘outstanding’ grades this week – while another earned the lowest possible grade at its...

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Revealed: Low pupil numbers forced nearly every UTC to hand funding back

Almost all the university technical colleges have missed their recruitment targets and were overpaid by the government last year,...

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ESFA seeks providers to pioneer T-levels

Providers can now bid to become one of the first to deliver T-levels, the Education and Skills Funding Agency...

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Struggling college ‘expects’ £25 million bailout as university merger hits buffers

Lambeth College, which was served with a notice of concern for financial control by the Education and Skills Funding...

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Milton to launch national Year of Engineering

Update, 11am, January 15: The Department for Education called FE Week to say that the minister’s visit to the National...

Jude Burke
Jude Burke