Colleges, Staff

AoC refuses to make college pay proposal

Membership body says any recommendation currently will be 'an insult to the hard-working staff'

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Ofsted, Staff

Ofsted inspectors and senior DfE officials to ballot for strike action

FDA union announces first national strike ballot over pay in over 40 years

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Staff

‘Growing our own’ can help plug gaps in recruitment

The challenge of recruiting and retaining teachers at all levels is becoming increasingly acute, exacerbated in FE due to...

JL Dutaut
Sarah Marquez
Staff

We know how to fix FE’s staffing shortages. It’s time college leaders did it

In-work poverty is a reality for many FE staff, writes Maxine Looby, and ignoring recommendations for pay awards every...

JL Dutaut
Maxine Looby
Colleges, Staff

Low pay and high turnover of college teachers uncovered

New findings from the Institute for Fiscal Studies lifts the lid on just how bad teacher pay and turnover...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Staff

Teacher mentoring and leadership programmes renewed by DfE

DfE confirms £14m investment in two programmes to boost leadership and governance and new teacher mentoring

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Staff

We must start playing hardball to meet our staffing challenges

The sector can’t keep selling itself cheap if it wants to fill its staffing vacancies with high-quality talent and...

JL Dutaut
Ian Pryce
Staff

Stop relying on more funding. Providers need to solve their own recruitment problems

There are a raft of measures FE providers can take to improve rectruitment that don’t rely on extra funding...

JL Dutaut
Alex Lockey
Staff

DfE hikes FE teacher training bursaries

But stricter eligibility criteria is now in place and caps have been introduced

Billy Camden
Billy Camden