Colleges

Unions take college teacher recruitment crisis to MPs

They warned 'pay erosion' could continue without significant policy changes

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
News

King’s Birthday Honours: Who received what in FE & skills?

More than a dozen leaders named in the honours list, including one CBE, three OBEs, seven MBEs and three...

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Colleges, Long read

Ian Pryce, chief executive, Bedford College Group

Ian Pryce believes FE “hasn’t been good” at telling the story of how 30 years of college independence from...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges

Foul play? Football club sues college

The club says the college failed to pay more than £110,000 to use football facilities

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Colleges

Lawyers urge caution as colleges face £100,000 holiday pay ruling

Some colleges warned the ruling had already had a "significant adverse impact"

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Long read, Qualifications, Skills reform

Destination defund: the fight to save travel and tourism courses

High-profile workforce shortages in the travel industry haven’t stopped the government’s plans to defund rafts of popular courses. Jessica...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Pay

Colleges with the biggest pay gap between principals and staff revealed

Colleges defend ‘high’ gap between FE principal and staff salaries. Unions say it cannot continue

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Industrial action

Ballot set for country-wide college strikes

Unless colleges come up with a ‘decent’ pay offer, ballots will begin in September

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Long read, Politics

Munira Wilson, Lib Dem education spokesperson

As a coalition government seems increasingly likely, FE looks to the Lib Dems’ Munira Wilson to see if the...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill