Exams

Ofqual scrutinising Edexcel’s A-level maths replacement paper

Over 2,000 students sign petition after substitute paper ‘lacked key topics’ 

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Colleges

City of Liverpool staffers awarded £100k over principal’s relative controversy

Ex-college managers awarded maximum unfair dismissal compensation

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

‘It’s refreshing Labour isn’t thrusting random vision on sector’ – Francis

Curriculum review chair says Phillipson’s approach means her review won’t ‘tip the sector over’

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
News

College mulls judicial review after downgrade to ‘good’

Previously ‘outstanding’ Farnborough College of Technology said its March inspection ‘focused obsessively’ on A-levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics

Phillipson ‘shifts the goalposts’ on 6.5k teachers pledge

Education secretary confirms promised teachers won’t all be new, and target omits key subjects aim

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Colleges, safeguarding

Prevent referrals in FE drop by a quarter

Learners possibly ‘self-censoring’ to avoid being referred to counter-terrorism programme

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel


News

Ofqual considering ‘action’ amid AI coursework concerns

Exams regulator also has a crack team examining the ‘risks and benefits’ of artificial intelligence

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Ofsted

‘Judge me on what happens in September’ says Ofsted chief

Sir Martyn Oliver says he only put out ‘foundations’ of a plan because sector demanded ‘urgent’ reform

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Devolution

Combined authority pauses adult skills contracts after legal challenge

Delivery is supposed to start next month

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, Ofsted

Burnley College inflated achievement rates, Ofsted reveals

Inspectors slam governors for not questioning ‘exceptionally high’ QARs

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, GCSE resits

‘Significant disadvantage gap’ in GCSE resits revealed

EPI calls for ‘targeted reforms’ to help students ‘who feel trapped on the resit treadmill’

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

Burnley College principal resigns amid investigation

Union demands ‘real reason’ for Karen Buchanan’s exit

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel

Must read

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
Colleges, FE Commissioner

Weston chair felt powerless over £2.5m payments to former principal

Ex-Weston college chair gives tell-all interview following FE Commissioner probe

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal

Paul Phillips was paid £1.8m in 2023, including a ‘significant’ six-figure retention payment which his COO son ‘resisted’ paying…

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
T Levels

NAO reveals enormity of T Level take-up failure

Forecasts missed by 75% and secret DfE estimates show staff and employer shortages could limit places to 48,000 students

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel