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29 October 2026

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Little for FE in the budget, but the hard choices are coming

Imran Tahir

Imran Tahir

8h | Politics

Devolution must not treat London as the place that copes

Rob West

12h | Adult education

Colleges, don’t wait for all the answers on qualification reform

Shelley Brown

2d | Colleges
Shelley Brown

Defining antisemitism won’t silence debate on Israel

Josh MacAlister

6d | Colleges
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FE can help turn the tap on for nursing’s leaky pipeline

Ella Reynolds

7d | Teaching
Ella Reynolds
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Our students need more than hope in a world on fire

Dr Ruth Valerio

7d | Students
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The overlooked question in the NEETs debate: Who will hire them?

Emily Rock

7d | Skills reform
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What I learned in my first 42 days as an FE lecturer

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7d | FE workforce

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Don’t ban AI in FE classrooms, teach students how to use it

Dr Behrooz Javanmard

7d | The Staffroom - opinion

The tech sector is growing. Its entry-level opportunities aren’t

James Turner

1w | Apprenticeships

What Alan Milburn and I learned from the Dutch

David Hughes

1w | Colleges
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You can deliver a pizza. You don’t deliver learning

Lauran Kerr-Heraly

2w | Teaching
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Our AI marking tool is designed to challenge teachers, not replace them

Scott Hayden

2w | Teaching
Scott Hayden
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My dyslexia diagnosis changed the way I teach

Dr Chand Khan

2w | The Staffroom - opinion
Dr Chand Khan
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If lifelong learning is for everyone, it must reach our prisons

Jane Rigbye

2w | Adult education
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England and America have each solved half the apprenticeships puzzle

Bruno V. Manno

2w | Apprenticeships
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Training providers shouldn’t have to apologise for profit

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3w | Training providers
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A fake press release put our college in an AI-generated story

Claire Reynolds

3w | Colleges

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Sharing the story of their lives, from the frontline of FE

7d | Colleges
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The Tory mayor confronting a postcode lottery in opportunity

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Dale’s mission to ride a zipline of happiness

3w | Colleges
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Bickering big beasts’ sideshow is Tory skills highlight

3w | Politics
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The stop-starts pressures on college apprenticeships
24 Sep 2026 | Apprenticeships
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Levy under the lens with Milburn’s NEET review
17 Sep 2026 | Apprenticeships
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New beginning for Norfolk FE’s local hero
17 Sep 2026 | Colleges
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‘SEND more to FE’ policy risks a raft of problems
3 Sep 2026 | Inclusion