Governors Havant a clue about college’s finances going South FE Commissioner reveals financial crisis at Hampshire college came ‘out of the blue’ for board members
Principals scratch their heads over new improvement teams FE leaders warn Labour’s regional improvement teams risk duplicating oversight already performed by the FE Commissioner
Weston freed of ‘traumatic’ NTI – but finance probe continues College out of intervention after strengthening governance procedures
Skills England urged to confront government on FE funding Joint AoC and UUK report also calls for ‘excessive’ competition to be challenged
Three thousand voices spoke and what they said shocked us Our major learners’ survey revealed insights and concerns that aren’t available from national data
£31k FE teacher training bursaries to continue in 2026-27 Experts say bursaries are ‘very effective for recruiting more teachers and retaining additional teachers long-term’ amid Labour’s 6.5k pledge
UCU launches England-wide college strike ballot The Association of Colleges says the union’s 10 per cent pay rise demand is unaffordable
CCC teachers begin strikes over sixth-form pay freeze Their pay could be frozen for up to 3 years until a ‘discrepancy’ between their salaries and the rest of the group’s staff is removed
To pay or not to pay? The ‘divisive’ question of college governor remuneration Relying on unpaid volunteers to hold college executive teams to account is either an important matter of principle or an outmoded concept that fails to reflect the scale of current challenges. Jessica Hill reports