Awarding

City & Guilds sold to ‘secure its future’

Commercial and charitable arms of 150-year-old technical education organisation to split in ‘landmark’ deal

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges

Governors Havant a clue about college’s finances going South

FE Commissioner reveals financial crisis at Hampshire college came ‘out of the blue’ for board members

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Ofsted

Ofsted reforms ‘the most sensible’ way forward, Oliver tells MPs

Chief inspector also praises watchdog’s ‘more human’ complaints process but admits to ‘concern’ over union tension

Billy Camden
Josh Mellor
Ofsted

ASCL drops Ofsted inspector threat – but mulls legal action

Union shelves plan to ask leaders to step down as inspectors – but says it has ‘resolved to explore…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Prison education

‘Devastating’ prison education cuts will fuel reoffending, warns chief inspector

Many prisoners return to causing ‘mayhem’ in their community after their release

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

Principals scratch their heads over new improvement teams

FE leaders warn Labour’s regional improvement teams risk duplicating oversight already performed by the FE Commissioner

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor


Colleges

Weston freed of ‘traumatic’ NTI – but finance probe continues

College out of intervention after strengthening governance procedures

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Apprenticeships

Revealed: DfE’s special payments to providers after funding blunder

Wheels in motion for convoy of claims after unprecedented payouts

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, Skills reform

Skills England urged to confront government on FE funding

Joint AoC and UUK report also calls for ‘excessive’ competition to be challenged

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

LSEC reveals civic rebrand

London academies and college group unveils new umbrella brand to ’emphasise role as anchor institution’

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Ofsted

ASCL joins Ofsted preparation ‘cottage industry’ it once criticised

Watchdog urges leaders not to ‘spend limited resources’ on preparing for inspection after union launches paid-for webinars

John Dickens
John Dickens
Apprenticeships

Lindsay Conroy appointed Association of Apprentices CEO

The former UCAS apprenticeships lead will replace Emily Rock

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter

Must read

Qualifications

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Long read

Colleges on the frontline of a divided nation

As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read

Alun Francis, chair of the Social Mobility Commission

Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release

‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden