Amid online poison, colleges can’t defend cohesion alone National leadership, guidance and support is needed if young people are to be protected against online content driving division
Colleges on the frontline of a divided nation As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica Hill talks to those on the front line, confronting hate head-on
Fixing resits requires fixing the system around them Persistent challenges face GCSE resit students and their teachers. If the sector is serious about improving outcomes, CPD, funding, and collaboration must be front and centre.
Make post-16 an ‘integrated’ tertiary system – report EPI calls for ‘holistic’ tertiary education system ahead of imminent post-16 white paper
City of Liverpool staffers awarded £100k over principal’s relative controversy Ex-college managers awarded maximum unfair dismissal compensation
Prevent referrals in FE drop by a quarter Learners possibly ‘self-censoring’ to avoid being referred to counter-terrorism programme
Burnley College inflated achievement rates, Ofsted reveals Inspectors slam governors for not questioning ‘exceptionally high’ QARs
We need to learn lessons from Weston debacle before we move on The Weston College scandal damaged trust in FE, but it also forced a reckoning on governance. With compliance under scrutiny, the sector must decide if this crisis will drive real change
Is education policy ‘TIP’ing into a trauma-informed trap? From Knowsley’s failed ‘deschooling’ experiment to today’s trauma-informed practice (TIP) trends, education keeps repeating the same mistake: embracing radical reforms without evidence