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15 April 2026

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‘Stepping-stone’ GCSEs risk halting social mobility progress, SMC report warns

1h | Colleges

‘Experts at hand’ cash must not plug ‘existing gaps’, councils told

1h | Inclusion

Team UK for WorldSkills Shanghai revealed

1d | WorldSkills

Revealed: The next 19 ‘technical excellence colleges’

1d | Colleges

Unions start the clock on binding college pay reform

1d | FE workforce

Long Read

‘The absolute friend is the truth’: inside Byron Nicolaides’ reckoning over City & Guilds

2d | Awarding

London mayor uses unspent adult skills funding for youth NEETs programme

5d | Adult education

Healthcare provider stops new starts amid Ofsted ‘urgent improvement’ verdict

7d | Apprenticeships
Latest Opinion
Baroness Ann Limb

The cost of leadership

Baroness Ann Limb

| Opinion
Gemma Marsh

Skills England’s new expert network will cut red tape, not corners

Gemma Marsh

| Skills reform
Ruth Sparkes

Teenagers aren’t googling your organisation, they’re asking AI

Ruth Sparkes

| Young people
Diana Sutton

This ESOL review is a rare chance – let’s not waste it

Diana Sutton

| Skills reform
Kim Laughton

Access to HE can play a key role in driving social mobility

Kim Laughton

| Higher education
Features

Long Read

‘The absolute friend is the truth’: inside Byron Nicolaides’ reckoning over City & Guilds

2d | Awarding

Investigation

Missing teenagers suggests a worthless guarantee

2w | Young people

Profile

Topping the Bill

2w | Colleges

Investigation

How one FE college is turning the tide on NEETs

3w | Long read

Profile

Kerry Boffey, chief executive of the Fellowship of Inspection Nominees

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FAB Tim’s Cheeky past
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Profile

New FE Commissioner Ellen Thinnesen heralds a new dawn for oversight
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Investigation

Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail
9 Feb 2026 | Colleges

Profile

Kim Leadbeater MP
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