Colleges, Young people

Population-spiked colleges scrabble for cash ahead of real-terms funding cut

Real-terms base rate cut of 0.5% could force principals to reevaluate provision and staff pay

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Free meals funding frozen in FE while schools rate rises

College leaders bite back at ‘insulting’ DfE decision

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

Ministers accused of breaking 16–19 funding promise with 0.5% rate rise

An uplift on older T Level courses will also be removed in the new academic year

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel and Josh Mellor
Colleges

Children’s commissioner: Colleges forced to ‘mop up’ system failures

Rachel de Souza says young people in post-16 education often 'neglected' due to a narrow focus on schools in...

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

David Bell to lead independent review on antisemitism in colleges

The Skills England vice chair wants to ensure everyone can learn 'free from prejudice and hate'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Colleges

FE needs senior women to share their real stories

In FE, women don’t lack ambition or ability but honest stories about what senior leadership really looks like

Jessica Hill
Dr Rebecca Gater and Joanna Stokes
Colleges, Politics

Joe Docherty: Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’

The former education executive has been suspended by the party weeks after being sent to the House of Lords...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill and Gabriel Pogrund
Colleges, FE workforce

DfE to fund maternity pay improvements in colleges

Funding to match a pledge to double school staff maternity pay to come in 2027

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Apprenticeships, Colleges

Welsh college pulls plug on England apprenticeships

Leaders want to 'concentrate expertise' in Wales following latest Ofsted criticism

Billy Camden
Billy Camden