Colleges

Weston freed of ‘traumatic’ NTI – but finance probe continues

College out of intervention after strengthening governance procedures

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

More than half of Turing trips turned down

The government also underspent its budget despite a one-third cut

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Skills reform

We need the same rigour of teaching in colleges as in schools

Schools soared up the international league tables under Gove and Gibb. Colleges, by contrast, remain the poor relation. It’s...

Jessica Hill
Will Bickford Smith
Staff

Government promises details of 6,500-teacher manifesto pledge

DfE will publish a full delivery plan by December

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Long read, Politics

Reform plots a political tsunami, but skills policy is lost at sea

Farage's turquoise tide: The insurgent party’s supporters want to fix ‘broken Britain’, insisting that trades and industrial automation are...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Politics

One minister, two beasts: Can Jacqui Smith fix the skills system?

Jacqui Smith’s unprecedented brief spanning the DfE and DWP signals ambition for a joined-up skills system. But without wider...

Jessica Hill
Dr Sue Pember
Skills reform

Colleges are bracing themselves for the Whitehall power shift

With skills policy moving to DWP, Ofsted unveiling a new framework and defence cash pouring in, this autumn could...

Jessica Hill
David Hughes
Colleges

New ‘school profiles’ to be explored for colleges

DfE will pilot the 'one-stop shop' tool this year

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Politics

Starmer’s shake-up could be the gamechanger FE needs

The Prime Minister’s decision to wrench skills policy from the Department for Education and place it in a new...

Jessica Hill
Tom Bewick