Colleges

Association of Colleges Beacon Award 2022 winners announced

'Colleges are brilliant – and the winners of the Beacon Awards are some of the best of the best'

Will Nott
Will Nott
Colleges

Capital projects worth £400 million given green light

The government's flagship college capital investment programme awards a further £400 million, but rising prices bring costs in to...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges, Ofsted

Ofsted slams SEND college for ‘highly inappropriate’ activities

The watchdog found that students with special educational needs and disabilities were tube fed and medicated in classrooms in...

Will Nott
Will Nott
Colleges

Central Bedfordshire College to merge with The Bedford College Group

Central Bedfordshire College is set to merge with The Bedford College Group, it has been announced today. The two...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges

College pauses ‘stop and search’ security checks after student protests

'We want to sit down calmly with students to get to the bottom of what it is that we...

Will Nott
Will Nott
Colleges

Activate Learning and Lincoln College Group drop merger plans

'I think what we felt with where we are at the moment, given those [previous] mergers, our group services...

Will Nott
Will Nott
Colleges

Conflicting principal views on Eton’s elite sixth form plans

The colleges will be designed to give disadvantaged young people who “have done well in their GCSEs the opportunity...

Will Nott
Will Nott
Colleges, EDI

New national leaders announced but diversity concerns remain

The FE commissioner has previously said that the lack of BAME national leaders reflects the small number of of...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Colleges

Nottingham College appoints new permanent CEO

She is set to join the college before the end of this academic year

Will Nott
Will Nott