FE Week https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Waltham Forest College names Jane Button as next principal Latest news from FE Week Date set for expanding free teacher vacancy site to FE Bringing good housekeeping to City Lit Bedroom gunpowder teen admits threats to bomb college Moulton College’s future in doubt after a second grade four No time or money for overseas activity, say colleges Unions win planning time for sixth form teachers Scheme digs foundations to woo builders into FE Social impact must be built into the business of skills Why I ditched presentations for paper and scissors Don’t get dragged into the ‘inclusion’ trap AI is already giving careers advice – we’re playing catch-up Don’t shy away from talking to students about global conflict ITPs squeezed out by pre-devolution pilot FE recruitment drive ‘pipedream’ without pay rises Movers & Shakers: Edition 532 New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms New bonus scheme fuels resentment among FE teachers Windsor college staff storm out over pay – again WorldSkills About FE Week AI can help learners think like examiners, if we use it properly Green skills gold rush leaves safety and quality fears simmering Colleges are losing learners before they even enrol Creativity and collaboration helped us secure local T Level industry placements This isn’t just a funding gap, it’s a planning crisis Newsletters Cheating now worst in functional skills exams Seeking more than a sticking plaster for hospitalised teens Signs of weakness among units’ ‘strong’ providers Apprenticeship achievement rate falls just short of 67% target The gender gap in engineering starts at home Insolvency experts probe Acacia deal Movers & Shakers: Edition 531 FE teacher training probe widened after ‘café placements’ scandal Staff to strike at UK’s biggest exam board DfE gets softer on English and maths resit entries but tougher on results FE Week Features HMRC drops VAT appeal but warns colleges over tax reliefs Contact Us 16-19 performance measure shake up: What you need to know DWP names first jobs guarantee delivery partners Subscribe to FE Week DWP question time April 2026: Live blog Earpiece exam cheat ring jailed over construction test fraud FE Week | Further Education News, Analysis and Insight ‘Heartbreaking’: How colleges are forced to turn away students as demand outstrips space Skills England bosses quizzed by MPs ‘Stepping-stone’ GCSEs risk halting social mobility progress, SMC report warns Investigation: Why care training is in crisis, and the solutions are falling short Regulator probes collapse of engineering trainer Sponsored academy students make ‘less ambitious’ post-16 choices Vocational reform will only work if people trust it AI translation tools are reshaping ESOL, but not for the better NEET rise raises the stakes for qualification reform Manufacturing has moved on, and so has our training Apprenticeship reform is squeezing the very SMEs it needs most First apprenticeship units limited to ‘strong’ providers When CAMHS fails, the classroom becomes the front line NOCN lays foundations for ‘skills passport’ fight Movers & Shakers: Edition 530 FE exit numbers still ‘stubbornly high’ but improving Benefit losses force teens to ditch apprenticeships FAQs Advertise with us Privacy Bauckham issues first rebuke over exam forms blunder Weston College governance failure allowed ‘concealment’ of £2.5m payments to former principal Education questions April 2026: Live blog Kim Leadbeater MP Novus selected again to deliver West Midlands prison education How fake skills cards have opened the door to building site blaggers  Cheap means nasty for apprenticeship units, say providers How NEET providers are propping up a failing system Revealed: Funding rates and delivery hours for apprenticeship units Don’t scrap industry-prized diploma, pleads BRIT School boss Death sentence for jails’ work-programme expansion Movers & Shakers: Edition 529 ‘The absolute friend is the truth’: inside Byron Nicolaides’ reckoning over City & Guilds £9m keeps complex-needs job finder scheme alive Exam board fined £270,000 over errors in physics papers CEO faces ruin after fighting directors’ bonus plan Scrapping essays over AI fears ‘never off the table’, says Ofqual boss Hope of more cash to re-engage hard-to-reach youth Learning doesn’t fit neatly into hours, so why do we force it to? For the first time in forever – fund SEND properly in colleges Speaking and listening exams are failing Gen Z’s anxious learners, it’s time for a rethink Engineering’s entry point is disappearing Providers aren’t failing by accident, they’re designed to fail Colleges face funding squeeze as DfE rations student growth cash again Inquiry vote backed as City & Guilds members demand answers ‘Experts at hand’ cash must not plug ‘existing gaps’, councils told The politics behind the King of the North’s MBacc mission We don’t need new apprenticeship metrics, we need to use the ones we have Legrave’s last orders: build cash, challenge leaders and don’t ignore teaching From clawbacks to giving back: David Withey, SGS College SEND first class: How groundbreaking partnership are rethinking SEND support Mapping the skills debate across the opposition benches Secrecy for seven ends as devolution budgets revealed