The Staffroom - opinion

If learners don’t feel they belong, they won’t engage

Working in safeguarding means seeing both the barriers and the brilliance in young people. Our project is proving how...

Jessica Hill
Carla Campbell
Colleges

Training across borders works but we risk missing the boat

Transnational education could be a powerful tool for exporting UK expertise and expanding access to quality training, but our...

Jessica Hill
Dr. Rossi Vogler
Colleges

White paper’s details pose a devilish problem for FE admin

Just as Wells’ Martians were undone by what they overlooked, the post-16 white paper could be derailed by the...

Jessica Hill
Ian Pryce
Colleges

Colleges take £20m slice of OfS capital funding

134 colleges awarded one fifth of £92m pot to 'address the government’s industrial strategy and priority sectors'

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

South Devon job cuts turned college finances to ‘small surplus’

The college's reserves have been 'depleted' to pay for capital costs due to low income in recent years

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

Newbury College considers merger after FE Commissioner intervention

Decision to be made on the college’s future this spring

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Ofsted

IoTs quit after spotlight shifts to new TECs

Ministers recently reversed plans to wind down the institutes altogether, it is understood

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

Colleges halt construction enrolments as demand hits the roof

Waiting lists found in all eight industrial strategy priority sectors, colleges report

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Razey returns: DfE announces three new deputy FE commissioners

All three will serve under new FE Commissioner Ellen Thinnesen

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel