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The names of the 30 providers to win contracts with the Greater London Authority to deliver its devolved adult education budget from August have finally been released. Of the GLA’s total annual budget of £306 million, around £130 million is being procured over four years. A tender for a slice of the funding got underway […]
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Strike action at cash-strapped Lambeth College has been cancelled after union members managed to negotiate a 3 per cent pay rise, additional leave and a reduction in teaching hours. Members of the University and College Union at the college have walked out for a total of 10 days since November in a long-running pay dispute, […]
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) has revealed the colleges with millions in government loans and bailouts. According to documents released by the ESFA and analysed by FE Week, a total of 34 colleges across the country received £270 million in Exceptional Financial Support and Restructuring Funding loans and grants by July 2018. This […]
Thirteen more colleges will receive a total of £1.8 million in grants through a fund designed to support struggling colleges, the government announced today. Skills minister Anne Milton has named the second round of colleges set to receive the cash, which is part of the £15 million strategic college improvement fund. The 13 institutions are: […]
Half of the 10 strikes planned at colleges across the country this week have either been suspended or called off. The University and College Union told FE Week that Bridgwater and Taunton has settled its dispute ahead of action that was due to start tomorrow, joining New College Swindon, which on Friday announced it had […]
Strike action has been called off at New College Swindon after it agreed to a staff pay deal which includes a two per cent raise. Members of the University and College Union at the college were one of nine other colleges due to walk out for three days starting next Wednesday, in the third wave […]
UPDATE: The strike at New College Swindon has been called off after the union and the college agreed on a pay increase. Staff at ten colleges in England will go on strike over pay later this month, in the third wave of such action by the University and College Union. The walk-outs will take […]
Around £470 million has now been allocated by the government to cover the costs of implementing post-area review changes for colleges. The figure, which is 65 per cent of the £726 million on offer, was revealed in the latest Education and Skills Funding Agency progress report on the restructuring facility, which closed in September. It […]
Strike action at two colleges has been suspended at the last minute, after governors at one requested more time to ratify a “landmark” pay deal while the other agreed to hold “further talks”. University and College Union members at Hugh Baird College are asking for a lecturer pay rise of between three and six per […]
