Author: Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu

A specialist college retained its ‘outstanding’ grade while seven providers received grade twos in a good week for FE. But it wasn’t without some poor reports: four private providers were found making ‘insufficient progress’ after early monitoring visits from the education watchdog. Orchard Hill College, which until last summer was led by Caroline Allen, who […]

A multi-site “college” is to have its funding contracts terminated, after serious safeguarding failures were exposed in a damning Ofsted report. City College Nottingham, a private training provider with eight campuses across the Midlands, laid off staff and stopped taking on new enrolments ahead of the publication of a grade four inspection report on December […]

FE providers can now bid to deliver T-levels in the third year of their rollout, the Department for Education (DfE) announced today. Expressions of interest have been invited from “high performing” providers who want to deliver the new technical qualifications in 2022/23. Eight new T-levels, in sectors such as legal, accounting and manufacturing, will be […]

The government has insisted it remains committed to Erasmus+, despite MPs voting against requiring officials to negotiate continuing full membership of the programme last night. The Liberal Democrats had tabled the amendment to the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill to make keeping the UK in the EU’s education and youth programme after Brexit an objective, […]

A high-profile college that uncovered a shock £6 million deficit when the finance director went on sick leave has put 26 jobs at risk and says it is considering an application for emergency funding. Gateshead College has remained tight-lipped on how the shortfall came about. However, it has confirmed a new interim finance director was […]

Lecturers in FE have the lowest levels of positive wellbeing and “stand out” as having high levels of anxiety among educators, a study has found. The Education Policy Institute (EPI) today published an analysis of national data examining the latest trends on teacher wellbeing in England following “a growing list of headlines” which indicated their […]

The highest-paid principal in the country, who led a college which is under investigation after it found an unexplained deficit of around £6 million, has retired with immediate effect. Judith Doyle stepped down from her role at Gateshead College on December 31. FE Week understands Doyle had previously informed the board of her intention to […]

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Last up is December… FE Week reached a milestone 300th edition this month, our front-page story of which exposed how Hull College Group had paid former staff substantial sums to stop pursuing bullying and pay-related sexual discrimination […]

For the last 12 days of 2019 we’re running back through the previous 12 months of FE Week. Here’s what happened in November… This month we revealed adult learners were being forced to pay back loans for courses which they had not started or were even aware they had signed up to. One such learner, […]