Adult education

Historic adult education centre considers merger amid financial intervention

The FE Commissioner called the charity's budget management processes 'inadequate'

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Adult education

Combined authority pauses adult skills contracts after legal challenge

Delivery is supposed to start next month

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Adult education

Northcoders bags full stack of top grades in first inspection

The company's CEO says the grade is a 'clear validation' of the standards staff strive for

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Adult education

It’s wrong that nobody knows if the adult skills fund actually works

Unlike apprenticeships, adult skills funding operates in a data black hole. Should the grant-allocated system in adult education be...

Jessica Hill
Aidan Relf
Adult education

New ERBs needed following devolution shake-up

£6.3 million available for 39 ERBs next year

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education

‘Wonderful’: DfE simplifies residency rules for adult learners

New residency rules come into effect from August 1

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Adult education

For Access to HE students, bills now matter more than books

Data shows economic pressures are the biggest barriers to learning but the tools we developed during Covid offer a...

Jessica Hill
Ken Duckett
Adult education, Long read

Inside the evergreen sanctuary of Fircroft adult residential college

Inspired by Denmark’s folk high schools, Birmingham’s Fircroft College still provides a home-from-home for people with addiction and mental...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Adult education

‘Get the Nation Learning’ could change our culture and society

Our L&W lifelong learning campaign is a rallying call to build the thriving country we want to live in

Jessica Hill
Emily Jones