FE workforce

Worrying workforce data demands we focus more on adult skills

NFER analysis reveals a rocky road ahead for many sectors and a pressing need to make upskilling and reskilling...

JL Dutaut
Luke Bocock
FE workforce

DfE takes control of FE teacher training scheme mid-round

Taking Teaching Further programme brought in-house after one year into two-year scheme

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, FE workforce

‘Shocking’ teacher training proposals could force provider closures

DfE also criticised for questioning ‘quality and value for money’ at private provider

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
FE workforce

Workforce data indicates little prospect of staff shortages improving any time soon

In the absence of concerted policy action, FE staff shortages are unlikely to improve in the coming years, say...

JL Dutaut
Luke Bocock and Dawson McLean
Colleges, FE workforce

National college strike ballot opens

Two in three staff warn they will quit without big pay rise

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
FE workforce

New FE workforce data reveals a significant recruitment challenge

The NFER's Dawson McLean and Lisa Morrison Coulthard pick out key findings from the first DfE collection of FE...

JL Dutaut
Dawson McLean and Lisa Morrison Coulthard
FE workforce

Judge upholds 71-year-old teacher’s Covid complaints

The teacher argued that she had been subjected to indirect age discrimination

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Colleges, FE workforce

Colleges with the biggest pay gap between principals and staff revealed

Colleges defend ‘high’ gap between FE principal and staff salaries. Unions say it cannot continue

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, FE workforce

Ballot set for country-wide college strikes

Unless colleges come up with a ‘decent’ pay offer, ballots will begin in September

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel