Author: Pippa Allen-Kinross

A college lecturer and a sixth form college are among 13 winners honoured in the 2019 Pearson Teaching Awards for their inspirational work in education. The winners received their awards, which recognise “inspirational” education, at a glamorous ceremony this evening hosted by BBC presenters Tina Daheley and Sean Fletcher. The ceremony, at the Roundhouse in […]

The FE Commissioner is pushing for a mega merger in Cornwall to secure the future of Cornwall College, which is currently surviving on government bailouts. FE Week exclusively revealed the existence of a mysterious and confidential review of further education in Cornwall back in November, after it was requested by Cornwall Council. It put pressure […]

The National Audit Office is expected to publish its long awaited follow-up review on the state of the apprenticeships programme next Wednesday, in the middle of National Apprenticeship Week. The independent Parliamentary body was damning in its verdict of apprenticeship reform in its last report in September 2016, when it warned of a high risk […]

An arts and media provider with a large proportion of high needs learners is challenging an ‘inadequate’ report after Ofsted criticised it for not moving enough students onto further study or employment. Sheffield Independent Film and Television (Shift) was given the lowest possible rating in every category bar one in a report published by the […]

Two providers will no longer deliver the first wave of T-levels after one received a low Ofsted rating and another was found to be too “specialist”. The Department for Education confirmed today that the London Design and Engineering UTC and Big Creative Training had been removed from the list of providers who will be delivering […]

Six more providers have received temporary bans on recruiting apprentices as Ofsted continues its scrutiny of new provision, with four others now completely removed from the approved register. The inspectorate is monitoring all new apprenticeship providers, and any deemed to be making ‘insufficient’ progress in at least one area faces being suspended from taking on […]

The Baker clause has been labelled a “law without teeth” after it emerged the government did not take any action against schools for non-compliance in the first year of its existence. The Department for Education also admitted it only wrote to half of the trusts it originally claimed to have contacted in relation to non-compliance. […]

Merging with a college that was “struggling for financial survival” and required a £30 million bailout from the government was the “right thing to do”, says the principal of Trafford College Group. Stockport College was rated ‘inadequate’ three times in five years and required a rescue package of £30 million from the government’s restructuring facility […]

A scheme to provide free functional skills courses online is being launched by The Open University in partnership with three FE colleges. The scheme is expected to allow tens of thousands of learners to develop level one skills in English and maths, and receive a functional skills qualification from a local college partner. A pilot, […]