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20 April 2026

The FE Week Podcast: Association of Colleges Conference Special

This special episode comes straight from the Association of Colleges annual conference in Birmingham, one of the biggest FE events of the year! Shane is joined by two leading principals: Sally Dicketts, chief executive at Activate Learning, and Jo Maher, chief executive at Loughborough College. Together they take a closer look at Nadhim Zahawi’s speech […]

Subcontracting fees will finally be published in June

The government will publish subcontracting fees for providers across the country in June, the education minister Nadhim Zahawi has revealed at long last. Individual lead providers were previously required to publish their annual figures by the end of November every year. This changed from 2016/17, when new rules dictated that providers had to inform the […]

Profile Nadhim Zahawi, education secretary

Nadhim Zahawi is England’s new education secretary, FE Week profiled Zahawi back in 2016 when he served the then Prime minister, David Cameron, as apprenticeship ambassador.