News

Top ten: FE Week most read news in 2017

FE Week is known for investing in high quality investigative news and with three and a half million page...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Non-levy tender: let’s have an investigation and recount

Nobody could have predicted that the ESFA would accidently award non-levy apprenticeship funding to a company that went bust...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Colleges’ Ofsted bounce-back should be acknowledged

Three weeks ago we reported that by the end of the last academic year, college performance had dipped to...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

ESFA ‘postpone’ results of second attempt at non-levy apprenticeship tender due to ‘high volume’ of applications

After extended delays and ultimately an aborted first attempted at a tender for funding apprenticeships with small employers (non-levy),...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford

Best of AoC Conference 2017

Best of AoC Conference 2017 supplement | Click here to download Colleges in spotlight like never before The AoC annual...

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Opinion

Post-16 funding inequality has consequences

Nick Linford considers the extent to which poor college performance can be blamed on government interference and a lack...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

London’s biggest college group just got bigger

London’s biggest college group has spread itself even further across the capital with another merger, and it is looking...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Principal resigns as college made aware of “allegations of mismanagement”

The principal of Bishop Burton College has resigned amid “allegations of mismanagement”. Jeanette Dawson OBE is understood to have...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Employer-ownership isn’t compatible with social justice

We now know that the first three months of the new apprenticeship funding regime went as badly as some...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford