Colleges

White paper’s details pose a devilish problem for FE admin

Just as Wells’ Martians were undone by what they overlooked, the post-16 white paper could be derailed by the...

Jessica Hill
Ian Pryce
Colleges

Finalists revealed for 2025 Good for Me Good for FE awards

Judges have selected 24 college staff, students and projects for this year's awards

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Colleges

Colleges take £20m slice of OfS capital funding

134 colleges awarded one fifth of £92m pot to 'address the government’s industrial strategy and priority sectors'

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

South Devon job cuts turned college finances to ‘small surplus’

The college's reserves have been 'depleted' to pay for capital costs due to low income in recent years

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

Newbury College considers merger after FE Commissioner intervention

Decision to be made on the college’s future this spring

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Colleges halt construction enrolments as demand hits the roof

Waiting lists found in all eight industrial strategy priority sectors, colleges report

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Razey returns: DfE announces three new deputy FE commissioners

All three will serve under new FE Commissioner Ellen Thinnesen

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Long read

Inside Karen Redhead’s battle to rebuild West London College

'Not for the faint-hearted’: How Redhead pulled her college back from the brink

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, safeguarding

Statutory Prevent duty led to ‘over-reporting’ of referrals in colleges, review finds

Independent commission into counterterrorism slams high rate of ‘unnecessary’ Prevent referrals

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel