Colleges

Leicester principal Verity Hancock to depart amid cancer treatment

She has led the college for more than a decade

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, Industrial action

NEU ends sixth form college pay dispute

Members accept 4.3 per cent deal with 'firm assurances' of future pay equality

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges, Industrial action

23 sixth form colleges vote to strike in NASUWT ballot

But the union has been criticised for also balloting teachers in academised sixth form colleges not involved in the...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

FE is becoming an attractive career move for HE leaders

FE is gaining traction as a career choice for HE professionals ready to make a meaningful difference

Jessica Hill
Paul Aristides and Paul Horgan
Colleges

Legal win fails to spark Catholic sixth form academy bids  

A suggestion that sixth forms could form their own trust faces barriers from bishops who aren't used to power...

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

Intervention lifted at pandemic-hit City Lit

Principal praises staff and FE Commissioner as college finances recover faster than planned

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Colleges

Ban mandatory bikini waxes on beauty students, says mum

A college tutor wrongly claimed a 16-year-old needed to undergo waxing to pass her course

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges, sixth form colleges

Sixth form college academisation reaches tipping point

But some principals doubt whether the Labour wants new academy conversions

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges, Politics

Saudis ‘ready to offer decade-long FE tuition deals’ to UK colleges

Fresh tendering round expected to launch this academic year to revive ventures in the kingdom

Billy Camden
Billy Camden