Adult education

£300m of adult education lost in post-pandemic underspend

'Hugely disappointing' unspent cash revealed to Parliament

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Adult education

Winners of Mayor of London Adult Learning Awards 2024

10 inspirational winners from London's adult learning community have been honoured

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Adult education

Neglecting over-50s in the training world must change – here’s how we do it

Recruiting and retaining older learners and creating inclusive training programmes that meet their needs are imperatives

JL Dutaut
Sara Roberts
Adult education

Trailblazing apprentice and ESOL innovator make London awards shortlist

Mayor of London to celebrate inspirational Londoners and providers for their contributions to adult learning

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Adult education, Colleges

FE Commissioner’s verdict on 2 struggling colleges and a council

Intervention reports shed more light on NewVIc conflict, reveal how a college nearly ran out of cash and that...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

A year of shaking things up with the FE Literacy Movement

Our grassroots movement launched 12 months ago, and it’s already changing the conversation as more people join in

JL Dutaut
Kirsty Haughton and Kayte Haselgrove
Adult education

DfE boosted early bootcamp payments after provider complaints

Performance targets were described as 'unrealistic'

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Adult education

Embedding digital literacy in training is key to closing gender gaps

Digital literacy must be at the core of every training programme

JL Dutaut
Jane Knight
Adult education

£500m skills bootcamps failing to boost job prospects

Results data for 2021-22 finally published ahead of crunch budget decision

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Josh Mellor