News

Independent training providers to compete for funding after EU law change

Independent training providers (ITPs) will have to compete for Skills Funding Agency (SFA) contracts following changes to European Union...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Cost of college bailouts as high as £100m

The Government is propping up colleges to the tune of £100m, the Association of Employment and Learning Providers’ (AELP)...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

List of notices of concern and serious breach of contract published for first time

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has published a list of live notices of concern and serious breach of contract...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Promote FE loans yourself, BIS tells providers

The responsibility for telling learners about new FE loans will lie with providers after the government admitted it had...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

College area review rerun

Five FE and sixth form colleges involved in a pilot review of post-16 provision in Norfolk and Suffolk last...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Why can’t politicians just give a straight answer?

It’s a naïve and age-old question, but one that really vexed my newshounds at FE towers this week. The...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

College surges from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’ in Ofsted report praising 100 per cent GCSE English pass rate

“Outstanding” GCSE English results have helped a formerly ‘inadequate’ sixth form college surge to ‘good’ in less than 18...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Joint strike action in FE colleges will be taken by Unison and UCU members on February 24

Joint strike action will be taken by members of the University and College Union (UCU) and Unison working in...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Almost 90 per cent of ethnic minority FE staff have faced promotion ‘barriers’

Almost 90 per cent of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) FE staff members have ‘often’ or ‘sometimes’ faced...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford