Colleges

FE and skills must be at the heart of curriculum reforms

A coherent tertiary system requires FE to be a partner, not a passenger. To close attainment gaps and respond...

Jessica Hill
Dr Katerina Kolyva
Colleges

We need to stop leaving life skills to chance

Unless financial and enterprise skills become core, not optional post-16, the gap between education and employment will keep widening

Jessica Hill
Sarah Porretta
Colleges

Troubled Burnley College appoints new principal

Karen Buchanan’s successor has been revealed amid a government investigation into achievement rates

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

OfS to reduce dual-regulation burden on colleges

But full registration conditions will still apply to colleges with degree-awarding powers

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

DfE’s £20m spike cash helps buy 9,000 student places

With student numbers climbing sharply, colleges in northern England are using emergency cash to buy new buildings and convert...

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Devolution, Long read

The politics behind the King of the North’s MBacc mission

Andy Burnham is grabbing headlines with his ambition for the MBacc technical education programme. But take-up has been slower...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges

Our commission will use engagement as lead indicator for FE outcomes  

Colleges chase attendance data and retention rates long after learners have switched off, or staff have burned out. Our...

Jessica Hill
Dr Rajbir Hazelwood
Colleges

The quiet power of FE, where second chances spark social change

In South Devon our new social and community practice degree is training graduates to prevent harm, not just respond...

Jessica Hill
Hannah Kam-Radcliffe
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