Staff UCU ballot results: 32 colleges vote to strike over pay and workload Pay deals were agreed at a further 17 colleges during the ballot window Anviksha Patel 3h Anviksha Patel 3h Skills reform LSIPs 2.0: Colleges and universities told to pool intelligence New guidance builds on white paper pledge for ‘more coherent’ post-16 pathways Anviksha Patel 4h Anviksha Patel 4h Colleges Colleges take £20m slice of OfS capital funding 134 colleges awarded one fifth of £92m pot to ‘address the government’s industrial strategy and priority sectors’ Anviksha Patel 9h Anviksha Patel 9h Apprenticeships Performance Through People bought by chamber of commerce ‘Business-as-usual’ after training provider deal is announced Anviksha Patel 1d Anviksha Patel 1d Colleges South Devon job cuts turned college finances to ‘small surplus’ The college’s reserves have been ‘depleted’ to pay for capital costs due to low income in recent years Josh Mellor 1d Josh Mellor 1d Colleges Newbury College considers merger after FE Commissioner intervention Decision to be made on the college’s future this spring Anviksha Patel 1d Anviksha Patel 1d Colleges, Long read Long read Inside Karen Redhead’s battle to rebuild West London College ‘Not for the faint-hearted’: How Redhead pulled her college back from the brink Jessica Hill 2d Jessica Hill 2d NEETs Milburn must ‘join the dots’ to help NEETs Experts urge independent review to ‘break down the policy silos’ Billy Camden 2d Billy Camden 2d News DWP promises careers service merger plan ‘by April’ The DWP has responded to calls for clarity over a merger of careers advice with jobcentres Josh Mellor 4d Josh Mellor 4d Colleges Exclusive Colleges halt construction enrolments as demand hits the roof Waiting lists found in all eight industrial strategy priority sectors, colleges report Anviksha Patel 4d Anviksha Patel 4d Ofsted Exclusive IoTs quit after spotlight shifts to new TECs Ministers recently reversed plans to wind down the institutes altogether, it is understood Josh Mellor 5d Josh Mellor 5d Adult education Winners of Mayor of London Adult Learning Awards 2025 10 winners have been announced celebrating London’s most inspirational adult learners, organisations, tutors and employers FE Week Reporter 5d FE Week Reporter 5d 1 2 3 4 5 6 834 Older Must read 16-19 Long read Curriculum review: ‘Strengthen’ resit accountability and reduce T Level assessment burden Review recommends already-announced V Levels, level 2 pathways and new pre-GCSE English and maths quals Anviksha Patel 2w Anviksha Patel 2w News Case dismissed: Marples loses High Court claim against DfE A judge has dismissed a multi-million-pound claim brought by former training boss Peter Marples and his family against the… Shane Chowen 3w Shane Chowen 3w Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 4w Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 4w Next 3 stories Qualifications Exclusive 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 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 2mo Anviksha Patel 2mo Colleges, Long read 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 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo
